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Hunt said, slowly, being fully alive to the advantages to Jimmy of such a friendly feeling on Theo's part. She recognized Theodore's business ability, and would have been only too glad to see her own boy develop something of the same kind. She was haunted with a dread that he might become idle and vicious as Dick had done. "All right, then," Theodore responded, promptly.
He would not have written it had she sent one; and folding the letter, after adding Theo's invitation, he laid it aside. "I must write to Rose next," he said; "'tis a whole week since I have written, and she has never been so long without hearing from me." Instantly there came a shadow over Maggie's face, while Theo, less scrupulous, asked who Rose was.
But Alick flatly refused to sue for pardon, when confronted with his offended tutor, spite of Theo's tearful entreaties. Stubbornly the wrong-headed, wrong-hearted boy held out. 'Very good! dryly said Mr. Price, after waiting in vain. 'Then, until you see fit to do so, I must dispense with your attendance here, Alick, otherwise our positions as master and pupil would be reversed.
It was only because he was so glad to find me," said Theodore, quickly. The nurse turned away in offended silence, and Mr. Scott sat down by the bed and began to talk with the boy. He listened with a grave face to Theo's story. When it was ended, he asked, "Did you recognise either of the boys?" "Yes, sir; one, certainly, and I think I know one of the others."
Theo's keen temper had taken up and resented the whole matter almost with violence.
So, so far as she knew, he still enjoyed her beauty without arrière pensée, although he saw her through his own eyes, not Théo's. Yet now, at this phrase of his wife's, "He always loves them for the time," she started, half angrily. When if the day came when he loved her, would this "clean old peasant," as Carron had called her, sit and darn his socks and say to herself "for the time"?
The talk about Théo's wedding had put things into their right places in your mind, silly old child, pas? And then you brought her back here after the dance, and all was well." Joyselle stood quite still. He was bitterly ashamed of himself for deceiving this dear, good woman, who was so innocently believing in him, but he could say nothing.
I managed to avoid giving in to the temptation to snatch Phyl's sumptuous chinchilla coat, Madge's perfectly adorable hat, Theo's bronze shoes, Dot's embroidered silk handbag, and Bess's hand-wrought collar and cuffs." "It was a matter of clothes, then? How much heart-burning men escape!" mused Mr. Warne.
He rode, or, if the weather was bad, drove, five days in the week to his little pupil, who in himself was not to Theo's mind an attractive pupil, and who kept the temper of the tutor on a constant strain.
"You must remember, Chatty, I was not born to it, like you. What are you doing? Are you building? Your letters are not very explicit, my dear." "You shall see. I cannot describe. I have not the gift." Here the cloud came again over Theo's face, the cloud which he had pushed back on his entrance as if it had been a veil.
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