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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Oh, Lionel! is it you?" said she, with as much composure as if she had not been caught gazing at herself. "I was looking at this," pointing to an inverted tumbler on the mantel-piece. "Is it not strange that we should see a moth at this cold season? Amilly found it this afternoon on the geraniums."
Early in the morning she had said, I will go to Verner's Pride after breakfast and tell her; breakfast over, she said, I will have my dinner first and go then. But the afternoon passed on, and she did not go. Every little trivial domestic duty was made an excuse for delaying it. Miss Amilly, finding her sister unusually bad company, went out to drink tea with some friends.
The rest of the day he divided between his daughters in their sitting-room, and Jan in the surgery, taking his departure again from Deerham by the night train. And Deborah and Amilly, drowned in tears, said his visit could be compared only to the flash of a comet's tail; no sooner seen than gone again. As the spring advanced, sickness began to prevail in Deerham.
Jan," she added, a strange eagerness in her tone, in her meek, blue eyes, "if we, I and Amilly, can only get into the way of doing something for ourselves, by which we may be a little independent, and look forward to be kept out of the workhouse in our old age, we shall feel as if removed from a dreadful nightmare. Circumstances have been preying upon us, Mr.
"Of course she was," acquiesced Miss Amilly with emphasis. "Did the bridemaids " What pertinent question relating to the bridemaids Miss Amilly was about to put, never was known. A fearful sound interrupted it. A sound nearly impossible to describe. Was it a crash of thunder? Had an engine from the distant railway taken up its station outside their house, and gone off with a bang?
"It mayn't be for supper," debated Jan. "Cook said it was. I asked her. She thought somebody was coming. I say, Jan, if you miss any of the castor oil, don't go and say I drank it." Jan lifted his eyes to a shelf opposite, where various glass bottles stood. Among them was the one containing the castor oil. "Who has been at it?" he asked. "Miss Amilly.
"Sometimes I feel as if there was no longer any place in the world for me and Amilly. You may be sure I would not mention it, but that you know it as well as I do that there is, I fear, no dependence to be placed on this promise of papa's, to allow us an income. I have been thinking "
"You are in a hurry," remarked Miss Amilly, surprised at the unwonted withdrawal. "Jan's out," returned Master Cheese. "Folks may be coming in to the surgery." "I wonder if Mr. Jan will be late to-night?" cried Miss Deb. "Of course he will," confidently replied Master Cheese. "Who ever heard of a wedding-party breaking up before morning?"
"Miss Deb can put me into some room or other. I say, doctor, it's past tea-time. Wouldn't you like some refreshment?" "I had a good dinner on my road," replied Dr. West; which Jan might have guessed, for Dr. West was quite sure to take care of himself. "We will go in, if you like; Deb and Amilly will wonder what has become of me. How old they begin to look!"
Their kisses of welcome over, they went round about her, fondly surveying her from all points with their tearful eyes. She was thinner; but she was more lovely. Amilly expressed an opinion that the bloom on her delicate wax face was even brighter than of yore. "Of course it is, at the present moment," answered Sibylla, "when you have been kissing me into a fever."
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