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Muriel Grey cried all through school, and Sally is not coming back after Christmas." It speaks well for Miss Carter's understanding of her two nieces that she did not have to ask for a more concise statement but accepted Janet's explanation in its entirety. "How very sad," she said at once. "Poor Mr. Keith must be almost frantic, and Mrs. Vincent too.
Otherwise they may forget all about us and not deliver them before tomorrow. I haven't the trusting faith in baggage masters that I might have." In the lavatory they encountered Muriel and Ronny. Lucy had already preceded them and gone to pay Katherine a morning call.
So long as I have that assurance nothing else counts." "Harry Colston's not convinced; I believe he's trying to keep an open mind." "Is that so?" said Prescott. "I don't expect much from him. He's the kind of man who's guided by appearances and seldom does anything out of the common." Muriel disregarded this. "But you were very foolish in deceiving us. I can't understand yet why you did so."
He turned, as if to go; and Leroy made no attempt to restrain him. "I have to congratulate you, I suppose, on your engagement?" he said coldly, when the young man had almost reached the door. Lord Standon turned sharply, and stared at him. He grasped the situation at once, but was still greatly puzzled, for he knew Leroy was but slightly acquainted with Lady Muriel Branton.
To his unreasonable disappointment there was none, but there were several which required immediate reading among them one from his sister Ethel, and one from his old friend, Philip Bentley. The first contained disquieting news. His little niece, Muriel, had been very ill with typhoid fever and, although Dr.
They were, briefly, the immediate transfer of Muriel Gay to the position of leading woman in a new company which was being sent to Santa Barbara to make light comedy-dramas. Robert Grant Burns grunted when he read that, though it was a step up the ladder for Muriel which she would be glad to take.
All this time Muriel had been seated on the ground, listening with profound interest, but scarcely understanding a word, though here and there, after her six months' stay in the island, a single phrase was dimly intelligible to her.
That means a longer time to celebrate tonight." "Delighted to ride with either of you," assured Muriel. "The main feature of this occasion is the beautiful fact that we are cherished enough to be actually met at the station and asked to ride in folks' automobiles." "Muriel can't get over the freezing-out we met with last September," commented Ronny.
I've got mine in before Muriel's anyway, and it's going to stay on her desk, so she'll always have something of mine right under her eyes. She fingered that saxe-blue ribbon rather lovingly! It exactly matches her sports coat! I'll make her a calendar for Christmas and put the same kind of ribbon to hang it up by. But I don't mean to tell a single soul, in case Muriel goes and does the same!
As we sat together Muriel, a smart figure in a pale blue gown, poured tea for us and chatted more merrily, I thought, than ever before. She seemed quick and nervous and yet full of happiness, as she should indeed have been, for Jack Durnford was one of the best fellows in the world, and his restoration to health little short of miraculous.
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