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"You make two very important reservations." "I know I do, but I cannot help it. I was never devotedly fond of children, and I was once Enid's governess. I do not think that she ever forgets that fact." "Well, come to the point," said Hubert, rather impatiently. "What is the matter with her now?" Florence laughed softly, and eyed him over her fan.
Lady Enid's pleasant plumpness began rapidly to disappear. "I can't say I do," she said sharply, feeling that most of the gilt was being stripped off her sin. She stopped in such obvious dissatisfaction that the Prophet, vaguely aware that he had made some mistake, said, "Please go on. I am so interested. Why have you led a double life for the last week and a half?" "Year and a half, I said."
Evandale must be guided by circumstances so she said to him; and, if Dick was ill, and the General anxious and out of temper, he had better defer his proposal for a week or two. She promised that she would do her best to help him; and he knew that he might rely on Enid's assurance of her love.
Enid kissed her cheek. "If they were our secrets, you should know all about them this very minute," she said; "but they are not ours, dear auntie." "Flossy's, I suppose?" said Miss Vane rather shortly, as she disengaged herself from Enid's arm and went out of the room. But she was not ill-pleased, although she pretended to feel piqued by the request for a private interview.
"I have been wanting to speak to you for several days," he said, "but I have never had the opportunity before; and I must tell you, dear, that I spoke to the General before I spoke to you." "Oh," Enid's fair face flushed a little. "I thought I did not know that you intended when you began to speak to me first, I mean " Hubert could not help smiling.
The vision of a girl pleading with him to find her work flashed suddenly across his mind; her words about London Bridge "her last resource" occurred to him; and his common sense told him that after all Enid's position, sad and lonely though it was, could scarcely be called so pitiable as that of Cynthia West.
"Enid, you are a witch!" "And she loves you?" He did not answer for a minute or two. Then with unaccustomed gravity of tone, he said "I fear so, Enid." "You fear so? Why do you say that?" she asked. "Because I am afraid that, even if we love each other, we ought not to marry." Enid's face grew thoughtful, like his own. "You mean because of my father?" she said, in a low voice.
Of course, as Enid says Enid's the girl, you know a love-letter as old as that ain't of no real use. Love-letters and eggs are a good deal alike. You can keep 'em in cold storage month in and month out, but while they don't exactly spoil, they ain't the same as fresh ones." Persis was talking to give the little woman time.
Even Kit was astonished, for Casa Grande had been neglected for years before Judge Breckenridge had bought it and restored its beauty. Enid's face shone with happiness. She was the first to speak. "Isn't it glorious!" she cried as she clasped her hands together. "Just think of being miles and miles away in the desert and having a place like this. It's like a miracle! I love it!"
I beg you to excuse her. It has been a very hard week for her." And with an air of mastery, as significant as it was unconscious he led her to her room. Safely inside the door she turned, and with a finger to her lips, a roguish light in her eyes, she said: "I want to tell you something. I can't wait any longer. Enid's Choice ran to the capacity of the house last week."
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