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The plant seemed to be hesitating, but she coaxed it over the hill, and since then it had scarcely needed her hand; almost light-headedly it hurried into its summer clothes, and new buds broke out on it, like smiles, at the fascinating thought that there was to be a to-morrow. Grizel's plant had never been so brave in its little life when suddenly it turned back.
Grizel's attention had left some fresh wood, should he choose to continue it, and the apartment had a comfortable, though not a lively appearance. It was hung with tapestry, which the looms of Arras had produced in the sixteenth century, and which the learned typographer, so often mentioned, had brought with him as a sample of the arts of the Continent.
McQueen, Grizel's dear friend, had just died at his post, and it was a letter of condolence. While Tommy wrote it he was in a quiver of genuine emotion, as he was very pleased to feel, and it had a specially satisfying bit about death, and the world never being the same again. He knew it was good, but he did not send it to her, for no reason I can discover save that postscripts jarred on him.
"Jean's duds i' my Grizel's drawers! A lik'ly thing!" "Hm! They war puir Miss Cam'ell's, war they?" "They war Grizell Cam'ell's drawers as lang she had use for ony; but what for ye sud say puir till her, I dinna ken, 'cep' it be 'at she's gane whaur they haena muckle 'at needs layin' in drawers. That's neither here nor there. Div ye tell me 'at Jean was intromittin' wi thae drawers?
Without its clothes it was of the nine-pin formation, and the painted eyes and mouth had been incorporated long since in loving Grizel's system; but it became just sweet as she swaddled it in a long yellow frock and slipped its bullet head into a duck of a pink bonnet.
"Ay, and syne she says, 'It is most heartless of Grizel; she does not even ask how you are to-day; one would think she did not know of the accident'; and she says, 'I have a good mind to write her a very stiff letter. And says he in a noble, melancholic voice, 'We must not hurt Grizel's feelings, he says.
And then she went out, joy surging in her heart For this was Grizel's glorious hour, the end of it. It was not Aaron's good fortune to find Tommy. He should have looked for him in the Den. In that haunt of happier lovers than he, Tommy walked slowly, pondering.
'She is in love with Kane, and Kane with her as he always has been, you know. They are all right. Everything is all right, except Helen. A queer illumination began to shoot across Miss Grizel's stupor. 'Perhaps you told Helen that you loved her before Miss Jakes threw you over. Perhaps you told Mr. Kane that Miss Jakes loved him before she threw you over.
She had not expected to find him, since the crash of Aunt Grizel's revelations, as fatuous as the day before yesterday; nor had she expected the boyish sulkiness of that day's earlier mood. She expected change and the signs of discomfort and distress. It was this haggard brightness for which she was unprepared.
"But to think of your caring, Corp!" "I care most michty," he replied, with terrific earnestness. "I must try to satisfy you, then," she said, smiling. "But, Corp, please don't discuss me with Gavinia." This request embarrassed him, for soon again he did not know how to act. There was Grizel's strange behaviour with the child, for instance.
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