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The evening passed and he said no word. At dinner Lady Clifford appeared a radiant vision in pale green georgette, a little transparent coat veiling the whiteness of her skin, her lustrous pearls heavy upon her white neck. She had an air of sweetness and frankness. Esther had never seen her so charming.
But he managed to thank Mollie and Esther more politely for what they had done for him, than his boorish manners earlier in the morning suggested, and even insisted on going on up to the camp with them in order to carry the heavy pail.
I must not keep you; Fred is waiting." Esther kissed the old woman, and went into the orchard, where she found Fred on a ladder shaking the branches. He came down when he saw Esther, and Harry, his brother, took his place. Esther and Fred filled one basket, then, yielding to a mutual inclination, they wandered about the orchard, stopping on the little plank bridge.
At times his vindictive malice planned revengeful surprises for the man who was in some way responsible for Paul's treatment. True, Paul saw little in Oswald's conduct toward Alice evincing any absorbing interest, and could detect that Esther was the attraction; but had not this fascinating Englishman come between him and the girl of his choice?
"I am glad you like it," said Mr. Jarndyce when he had brought us round again to Ada's sitting-room. "It makes no pretensions, but it is a comfortable little place, I hope, and will be more so with such bright young looks in it. You have barely half an hour before dinner. There's no one here but the finest creature upon earth a child." "More children, Esther!" said Ada.
"You will know when the time comes." "Then she won't come in here among us all?" "I reckon not," said Norton. "She'll see only one at a time, I hear." "What for?" said Esther. "Ah, what for!" echoed Norton. "I don't know, I can tell you. And what's more, I don't know yet whose notion it is. Now, Pink, I propose we go upstairs and put these things away.
"Weren't you there with two ladies, rather Spanish-looking, one much older than the other?" He raised his brows and blew out a cloud of smoke. "I shouldn't wonder," he assented, and seemed to dismiss the subject from his thoughts. While Esther resumed her task he roamed aimlessly about, winding up again in the salon, where she heard him rustling a newspaper.
No one took any notice of the visitor. "What's that you're reading?" he asked Esther politely. "Oh nothing," said Esther with a start, closing the book as if fearful he might want to look over her shoulder. "I don't see the fun of reading books out of school," said Levi. "Oh, but we don't read school books," said Solomon defensively. "I don't care. It's stupid."
The first thing of which Esther Vincent was conscious, when she returned to her senses, was of her English lover kneeling beside her. She was lying on some kind of couch, and she could see his face in profile, for he had turned and was speaking to someone at the far end of the room. "And was it you who knocked me down?" he was saying, "and sat on my chest, and trussed me like a fowl?"
"I can't bear for Esther and me to have to go back alone to our great, empty house with mother and father away and no knowing when they may come back." When the snow comes we can use our big sled."
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