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Really she thought it would save a great deal of time and trouble, if he could just see the thing clearly and ask her to marry him now. But apparently his mind did not work so quickly. "Who will repeat it?" he said. "Not the Usshers " "Nancy Almar won't let it pass. She'll have found the evening dull without you, and she'll feel she has a right to compensation.
It's a great art. I'm afraid I shall never learn it." For the first time, Riatt found himself looking at her with a certain amount of genuine admiration. This was very straight fighting. "They have the piratical virtues," he thought, "courage, and the ability to give and take hard blows." Mrs. Almar was not to be outdone. "Well," she said, "I may as well be honest.
There was no one else. Jack is much too selfish, and I wouldn't have gone with that Wickham person for anything in the world, even if he had ever driven a sleigh, which I am sure he hasn't." "And how about Mr. Hickson?" Riatt asked. "Wasn't he a possibility?" "What has Nancy Almar told you about her brother and me?" "Nothing but what he told me himself in every look and word that he loves you."
"I never had a worse run of luck," observed Wickham with an attempt at indifference. Mrs. Almar stood up yawning. "Doubtless you are on the brink of a great amorous triumph," she said languidly, and went off to bed. Hickson did not attempt to sleep.
"It's only a little way from here," Christine answered, trying hard to think how far it really was. She did want to get her father's coat, but she was not indifferent to the triumph of making Riatt late for dinner, and leaving Nancy Almar throughout the afternoon with no companion but Wickham or Jack Ussher.
Strange to say my motive is altruistic so altruistic that I feel I should sign myself 'Pro Bono Publico, instead of Nancy Almar. There is no one down here in the drawing-room at the moment." Riatt's room. She did not have long to wait. Riatt, with all the satisfaction in his bearing of one who has just bathed, shaved and eaten, came down to her at once.
"I can't see what that has to do with it, or what difference it makes," replied Mrs. Almar. "However, too much importance should not be attached to such admissions. I have sometimes made them myself when the facts did not bear me out. No woman likes to confess, especially to an old adorer like you, that she has spent so many hours alone with a man and he has not made love to her."
Christine held out her hand with the gesture of a queen. "And I very gratefully accept your generous offer," she said. "Well, heaven itself can't save a fool," said Mrs. Almar, and she went out of the room, and slammed the door after her. As she went, Riatt actually flung the hand of his newly affianced wife from him. "May I ask," he said, "what you think you are doing?"
Ussher seeing this, decided that such methods as Nancy's ought not to prevail; she seated herself on Max's other side, and instantly engaged in conversation. "Don't you think my dear little Christine is an angel?" she said, without any encumbering subtility. "She certainly looks like one." "Who looks like what?" asked Mrs. Almar, from his other side.
You think no one will believe that he ever did propose unless I accept him. I think you're perfectly right." "They won't and I don't," said Nancy, and moved rapidly to the door. "One moment, Mrs. Almar," said Riatt, firmly. "You happen to be mistaken. I did very definitely ask Miss Fenimer to marry me not ten minutes ago." "And do you renew that request?" said Christine. "I do."
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