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I have a kind of peppermint chocolate in this box which is extremely stimulating to the digestive organs." "No, no, Stephie. I beg I really do beg that you will take all the obnoxious boxes out of the room." "Very well, auntie; but you'll come up to-morrow to see me in my dress?" The next day was Saturday, a holiday of course.
"Oh, no, thank you, my dear!" said that lady, backing; "the indigestion I have already got owing to the way you have forced your bon-bons upon me has almost wrecked my health. I have lost all appetite. Dear me, Stephie! I wish you would not be so dreadfully American." "The process of Englishizing me is a slow one," said Stephanotie. She turned, walked up to the glass, and surveyed herself.
We'll have a good time by ourselves. What game do you think we had best play, Stephie?" "I'm not one for games at all," answered Stephanotie. "Girls of my age don't play games. They are thinking seriously of the business of life the flirtations and the jolly time they are going to have before they settle down to their staid married life. You English are so very childish."
Then, after a pause, she said, in a more feeble, but equally earnest voice, "No, no, Stephie, I never'll tell I never, never will!" The moment the words had left her lips, she started, turned, saw Gertrude standing by the bedside, and with a frightful look, shrieked, rather than asked, "Did you hear? Did you hear? You did," continued she, "and you'll tell! Oh, if you do!"
"Well, lost or found, I'd like to have a peep at it," said Molly; "so fork out the spoil, Stephie, and be quick." "I will, of course," said Stephanotie. "But how much do you want?" "All you possess, my dear; you cannot give us more than all you possess." "And when am I likely to have it back?" "Oh, as if that mattered," said Molly; "the thing is to get Nora home.
I guess it's about time for her first turn now, so the sooner you are off the better." "Oh, thank you, Stephie! I shall never, never forget your kindness," said Nora. She flung her arms impulsively round Stephanotie's neck, and the next moment the girls left the house. The girls now went straight to the railway station; the hour was a quarter to twelve.
"And you shall have the money back, Stephie, every farthing, if I die to get it for you," said Nora with sudden passion. "I don't doubt you, darling," said the generous-hearted American girl. "Well, I'll go up to my room and see what I can do." She left the room, ran upstairs, and quickly returned with a fat purse.
"Oh, mother! do forgive me, and don't say she mustn't come because I said 'Holy Moses. It's all Linda; she excites the vulgar in me always. But may Stephie come, mother? You are always having Linda's friends here." "I will not be reproved by you, Molly." "But, please, dear mother, let her come. Nora and I want her so badly." "Well, dear, I will try and see Miss Flowers tomorrow morning."
"There is a telegram for mother, and I cannot tell you anything whatever about it," said Molly in a cross voice. "There, I'm off once more. I promised Linda that I would help her to look after the Armitage girls. Prim and proper as they are, they are sometimes a little bit too much for my dainty sister Linda. You take care of Stephie; she's right good fun. Let me go, Nora; let me go."
"To be sure," said Molly. "Holy Moses! it's you that have got the sense, Stephie." "Thank you for the compliment," replied Stephanotie. "Well, then, here you are ten sovereigns. Good luck to you both. What do you mean to do?" "Go to the station and find out about the trains, and start the very first moment possible," said Molly. "I do wish I was going with you. It would be no end of a lark."
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