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Send a wire to our hotel as soon as you're sure, said Miss Henschil. 'What should I have done without you? 'Or I? said Conroy. 'But it's Nurse that's saving us really. 'Then thank her, said Miss Henschil, looking straight at him. 'Yes, I would. She'd like it.
I forgot I wasn't paid to be surprised. 'What at? Oh, I see! Miss Henschil explained to Conroy. 'She expected you were going to kiss me, or I was going to kiss you, or something. 'After all you've gone through, as Mr. Conroy said, 'But I couldn't, could you? said Miss Henschil, with a disgust as frank as that on Conroy's face. 'It would be horrible horrible.
I said I'd never seen a case of leprosy, and your mother said she'd seen too many. 'Where? She never told me, Miss Henschil began. 'A few months before you were born on her trip to Australia at Mola or Molo something or other. It took me three evenings to get it all out. 'Ay mother's suspicious of questions, said Miss Henschil to Conroy.
On their last trip she volunteered to sit with them, and buried herself in The Cloister and the Hearth while they whispered together. 'But still, said Nurse Blaber, not looking up, 'I think your Mr. Skinner might feel jealous of all this. 'It would be difficult to explain, said Conroy. 'Then you'd better not be at my wedding, Miss Henschil laughed. 'After all we've gone through, too.
They starved together heroically, and Nurse Blaber was good enough to signify approval when she came to clear away. 'Nursey? Miss Henschil insinuated, and flushed. 'Do you smoke? said the nurse coolly to Conroy. 'I haven't in years. Now you mention it, I think I'd like a cigarette or something. 'I used to. D'you think it would keep me quiet? Miss Henschil said. 'Perhaps.
Nurse Blaber purred audibly. "She says only remembers being upset minute or two. Unspeakable relief. Best love Nursey, who is jewel. Get out of her what she would like best." Oh, I oughtn't to have read that, said Miss Henschil. 'It doesn't matter. I don't want anything, said Nurse Blaber, 'and if I did I shouldn't get it.
I'll call her while we feel strong. She hesitated, but yielded at last, and Nurse accepted the offerings with a smile. 'You'll be all right, she said to Miss Henschil. 'But if I were you' to Conroy 'I'd take strong exercise. When they reached their destination Conroy set himself to obey Nurse Blaber.
More notable still, he had settled his month's accounts, only once confusing petty cash with the days of grace allowed him. Next morning he rode his hired beast in the park victoriously. He saw Miss Henschil on horse-back near Lancaster Gate, talking to a young man at the railings. She wheeled and cantered toward him. 'By Jove! How well you look! he cried, without salutation.
When Nurse Blaber came back after the parting at Templecombe her nose and her eyelids were red, but, for all that, her face reflected a great light even while she sniffed over The Cloister and the Hearth. Miss Henschil, deep in a house furnisher's catalogue, did not speak for twenty minutes.
Miss Henschil leaned forward and collapsed, as Conroy told her afterwards, like a factory chimney. She came out of her swoon with teeth that chattered on the cup. 'No no, she said, gulping. 'It's not hysterics. Yo' see I've no call to hev 'em any more. No call no reason whatever. God be praised! Can't yo' feel I'm a right woman now? 'Stop hugging me! said Nurse Blaber.
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