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I mean to be naughty enough to enclose it to Leila. I told you so." "Yes, but it is not quite done, and now I must tell her about the fire. I wrote her that Josiah had gone away." "The less of it the better. I mean about well, about your warning him and the rest your share and mine." "Of course not, Aunt Ann. I would not talk about myself. I mean, I could not write about it."
"My lord," said Leila, calmly, and rousing herself to the necessary effort, "I am deeply and sincerely grateful for the interest you express for the affection you avow. But you deceive yourself. I have pondered well over the alternative I have taken. I do not regret nor repent much less would I retract it.
Agatha Caithness was there a great deal, looking like a saint in her subdued plumage; and very devout, dodging nothing neither confession nor Quarrier's occasionally lifted eyes, though their gaze, meeting, seemed lost in dreamy devotion or drowned in the contemplation of the spiritual and remote. Plank came docilely from his Dutch Reformed church to sit beside Leila.
Mammy Crissobella's dose had certainly put an end to all Tommy's spirit of resistance. All the others who had been victims to our plot were kept in the dark as to the real facts, and, as soon as they were able to be moved, paid their bills to Leila, and left the house.
A popular production known as "Leila of Hawtrey's" contained her creed, Hawtrey's being a glittering metropolitan restaurant where men of the world are wont to gather and discuss the stock market, and Leila a beautiful, blonde and orphaned waitress upon whom several of the fashionable frequenters had exercised seductive powers in vain.
She was longing to tell about that ball in the stable, but refrained. "So Billy upset you; and John, where is he?" "He's upstairs getting dried." "It is rather a rough welcome," remarked her aunt. "He lost his cap and his cane," said Leila. "His cane!" exclaimed her uncle, "his cane!" "I must see him," said his wife. "Better let him alone, Ann." But as usual she took her own way and went upstairs.
How, may I ask, do you happen to be out here with me instead of sitting faithfully in the tonneau beside your find?" quizzed Leila. "Oh, Katherine and Lucy took her away from me. I guess I scared her. She is in Vera's car with them. If you don't enjoy my society, stop the buzz buggy and I will get out and walk. I may lose a pound or two, even if my feelings are hurt." "It is here you'll stay.
His hand went to his throat, and I saw Leila whiten. Her hand, resting on the piano, trembled, but her face held immobile, although I knew that all the happiness of the rest of her life hung upon his answer. On what Standish Burton would tell her depended the years to come.
The flat had belonged to an artist who was at the war. It was but a pocket dwelling on the third floor. The two windows of the little square sitting-room looked out on some trees and a church. But Leila, who hated dining by daylight, had soon drawn curtains of a deep blue over them.
Leila and Eugene Clark were properly impressed with the new house; yet, with the others, were quite ready to stop their play that they might do justice to the big cake with its nine candles, and its wreath of flowers; while the amount of ice cream eaten showed plainly that the refreshments were quite to the taste of the guests.
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