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It took me several minutes fairly to wake up and realize my new position. Pincher brought me to my senses by washing my face with his tongue; which I took all the kindlier of him that he had been, of all the dear boys, the most doubtful about the calves of my legs the evening before. As we dressed, I adopted Eleanor's fashion of doing so on foot, that I might examine her room.
Newbolt at Eleanor's bedside, exclaiming, and repeating her dear mother's ideas about catching cold, and offering more hot-water bottles, had her thoughts: "I won't go into the room she would hate to see me! The doctor said she had fallen into some water. Did she do it on purpose? Oh, was it my fault?"
Some lodged in the convent attached to the well; but many and many more dwelt in tents, or lodged in cottages, or raised huts of boughs of trees. Noble ladies of Eleanor's suite were glad to obtain a lodging in rude Welsh huts; and as the weather was beautiful, there was plenty of gay feasting, dancing, and jousting on the greensward, when the religious observances of the day were over.
Then the two women clung to each other in a strange and pitiful embrace offered with passion on Lucy's side, accepted with a miserable shame on Eleanor's and Lucy slipped away. 'He was out? in the garden? said Eleanor to herself bewildered. And with those questions on her lips, and a mingled remorse and fever in her blood, she lay sleepless waiting for the morning.
"That was what I hoped you would say, Uncle Peter," she whispered. They had a long talk after this, discussing the past and the future; the past few months of the experiment from Eleanor's point of view, and the future in relation to its failures and successes. Beulah was to begin giving her lessons again and she was to take up music with a visiting teacher on Peter's piano.
"I might as well tell you at once that Eleanor's opinion of us is far from flattering," said Grace, half laughing, although there was a hurt look on her face. "She says we are all goody-goodies and that we make her tired. She also requested me to mind my own business." "She said that to you? Just wait until the next time I see her," blustered Nora, "I'll tell her what I think of her."
Eleanor's been used to very different surroundings." "That's the point. Let her have what she hasn't been used to. You have tried giving her a bunch of your money and telling her how to spend it. Try giving her a little of her own and letting her do as she likes with it." "I don't care what she does for the present, if she just won't marry that man Phipps.
But Dame Lilias saw what she did not a look of triumphant malice on the face of Jamet de Tillay. Or at other times she would sit listening, with silent tears in her eyes, to plaintive Scottish airs on Eleanor's harp, which she declared brought back her father's voice to her, and with it the scent of the heather, and the very sight of Arthur's Seat or the hills of Perth.
What did you say he refused?" shrilled Eleanor. Polly turned suddenly to look at her companion. She was surprised at the expression on Eleanor's face. "I never lie. Why should I?" she cried in defense. "No, but you must have been joking!" "I wasn't! Why should I joke?" retorted Polly. "But goodness me, girl! If your father was as rich as all that, why would you care about wasting a doughnut?
Should they offer strenuous objections against Eleanor's plan to live in New York, he would have one cudgel, at least, to use against them. The sinking sun was bathing Rainbow Cliffs in a glory of color before the echo of the lumbering ranch-wagon was heard sounding across the crater. Then every one ran out upon the terrace to watch the home-coming of the weary boys.
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