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"Not another word, or I'll drop dead in my tracks!" Then, cautiously, to Madge: "I say, little one, couldn't you let me have a word alone with Miss 'Lethe?" The girl nodded wisely. "I understand," said she; and then, with a quick glance at Miss Alathea, who was not attending, and an earnest and imploring look at the poor Colonel: "Whatever you do don't you forget that we are goin' to th' races!"
"She is so very good and charitable," Alathea said, "and has always a twinkle in her eye which carries her through things." "You laugh sometimes, too?" I asked with assumed surprise. "That is delightful! I adore the 'twinkle in the eye, but I was afraid you would never unbend far enough so that we could laugh together!" I think this offended her.
I had the most awful sensation of discomfort the very fact of having to hear of all this through servants was sufficiently disgusting, without the events themselves being so degrading. What must Alathea think of me! And I cannot even allude to the subject. How wonderful her dignity has been that she has allowed no extra contempt to come into her manner.
What a remarkable way to become an engaged man!! But only joy filled me at that moment. I wanted to shout and sing and thank God! Alathea will be mine, and surely it will only be a question of time before I can make her love me, my little girl! I rang for Burton. I must have rung vigorously for he came in hurriedly.
The oculist, and his artist-craftsman, would be arriving soon, at eleven o'clock, if the excitement of an Armistice does not prevent them! I hope all that won't be going on when Alathea does come in! Burton has questioned her maid. She knows nothing of Miladi's movements only that she herself had been given permission to go out for the day. All the servants have gone more or less crazy!
"What are all those bundles, Colonel?" asked Miss Alathea, pointing to the packages which old Neb had brought in. "They're for Madge. She bought them yesterday." He sighed. "Ah, will you ever forget yesterday?" "Oh, don't speak of it!" "Can't help it." The Colonel waxed enthusiastic at the mere memory of the great occasion. "Whoopee!" he cried. "What a race it was!"
How I would like to sit and talk with her of how we should bring him up I reached out my hand and picked up a volume of Charles Lamb and read "Dream Children" and as I finished I felt that idiotic choky sensation which I have only begun to know since something in me has been awakened by Alathea or since my nerves have been on the rack I don't remember ever feeling much touched, or weak, or silly, before the war .
I have a feeling that I must be very discreet about giving Alathea presents, or she will be resentful and even suspect that my bargain is not entirely a business one. I am afraid I seemed a little too pleased at our interview; I must be indifferently aloof on Friday. I suppose I had better not give her my mother's pearls until after the ceremony.
Obviously because something is wanting upon one of the planes on which we love, and so that part which is unsatisfied, unconsciously struggles to have its hunger assuaged elsewhere. There is no aspect of mind, body and soul in me, which I feel would find no counterpart in Alathea. If I reached out to any height spiritually, she could go as high, or higher.
Then I went back to the glass again, actually whistling a tune! Except for the black patch over my eye, I appeared very much the same as I used to do before the war. My shoulder is practically straight now. I am a little thinner, and perhaps my face bears traces of suffering, but in general I don't look much altered. I wonder what Alathea will say when she sees me!
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