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And he regarded Hal with a slightly puzzled air. "I hardly know what to think," Hal said. "Yesterday she was very ill." "Ah, but you had to leave early," reassuringly, "and she may have been gaining strength all the afternoon, and had a very good night. What are you going to do?" looking at Alymer. Alymer looked at Hal, and waited for her decision. Hal only looked doubtful and troubled.
Two days later, flying the colours of a great victory, and flushed with the pleasure of warm congratulations poured upon him from all sides, Alymer Hermon stepped out upon the little station.
Edith certainly writes as if she were well known. Does it makes any difference?" she asked, as he was silent. "Don't you want to go? If you don't I must find some one else; that is all." "But certainly I will go. I was only a little surprised. She must be a good deal older than Alymer." "That only makes it worse.
A swift surprise passed through Lorraine's eyes, as if it had not occured to her Hal would not know the truth. Then she said, very softly, "Alymer." "Ah!" The exclamation seemed wrung from Hal unconsciously, and after it her lips grew strangely rigid. "Hal," Lorraine said weakly, "I've loved Alymer almost ever since I first saw him. I swore I would not harm his career, and I have not.
There is no necessity for you to truin your whole career, just because she happens to like being seen out with you." There was a silence, in which Alymer seemed to be cogitating how best to disarm his mother's fears; and also to be reminding himself of her natural ignorance on theatrical matters, and his own need to be patient therefore.
Moreover, Alymer, seeing nothing to gain by making known his mother's fears, preferred not to annoy her with any account of them. To say that he was wholly unaffected by it, however, would be to say too much. He was, indeed, exceedingly and bitterly annoyed with his interfering aunt, who had obviously tried to make trouble for some petty motive of jealousy.
Hermon gave a significant sniff of incredulity, but she only said: "Well, Alymer dear, you will give me a promise not to see her any more won't you?" "I can't do that, mother." "Why not?" "It is out of the question. For one thing, I owe too much to Miss Vivian; and for another, I am too fond of her."
Perhaps the trouble lay in the wrong start she had made and never been able to retrieve. But at least there was time to try another plan yet. Finally, feeling the nerve strain of recent events was seriously affecting her health, she decided to arrange a week's holiday to think the matter out. But then what of Alymer? Nothing had changed her mood since his uncle paid his ill-chosen visit.
In the interview he had sought with his aunt, to request her not to interfere in his affairs, the indignant lady hurled at him the story of the visit; or such garbled account of it as she had received from the participator himself. That was quite enough for Alymer that and Hal's account of Lorraine in tears.
She knew that in the first awful moments of realisation, and deathly weakness, her whole soul had so craved to see Alymer again that she had asked for him. A few moments later the stupor had come down upon her exhausted senses, and without any further word or thought from her, Hal had gone on her errand.
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