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The Barmbys, father and son, called frequently, and went away with gloomy faces.
Supposing their plot revealed, would Nancy in fact be left without resources? Surely not, with her brother, her aunt, her lifelong friends the Barmbys, to take thought for her. She could not suffer extremities. And upon this he blushed relief. Better to make up his mind that the secret must inevitably out.
Did they, in their questioning, betray any suspicion fraught with danger? Jessica, enjoying the possession of a most important secret, which she had religiously guarded even from her mother, made time to accept the Barmbys' invitations pretty frequently, and invited the girls to her own home as often as she could afford a little outlay on cakes and preserves.
'I needn't remind you, fell from Nancy, after a moment of troubled reflection, 'how careful you must be in talking about me to the Barmbys. 'Oh, don't have the slightest fear. 'Weren't you delirious in your illness? 'I should think I was indeed! For a long time. 'I hope you said nothing 'About you? Oh, not a word; I'm quite sure. I talked all the time about my studies.
'He simply wouldn't believe me when I told him the hours I worked. He said I ought to be on my trial for attempted suicide! And she laughed with extravagant conceit. 'You have quite made friends with the Barmbys, said Nancy, eyeing her curiously. 'They are very nice people. Of course the girls quite understand what a difference there is between themselves and me.
Of most interest was that which related to Nancy Lord. Only a month ago it had become known that Nancy was married, and the mother of a child. 'The Barmbys found it out somehow, Ada narrated. 'She was married to a man called Tarrant, some one we never heard of, on the very day of her father's death, and, of course, before she knew anything about his will.
She'd got it into her silly noddle that Horace Lord would drop in for a fortune at once. As it is, he gets nothing at all for two years, except what the Barmbys choose to give him. And if he marries before he's four-and-twenty, he loses everything every cent! Crewe whistled a bar of a street-melody, then burst into laughter. 'That's how the old joker has done them, is it? Quite right too.
Morgan having tea with his sisters. For a month or two after Midsummer the Barmbys had scarcely seen her; now their friendly intercourse was renewed, and Jessica came at least once a week. She had an engagement at a girls' school in this neighbourhood, and, though her health threatened another collapse, she talked of resuming study for the Matriculation of next year.
The two or three hours which she perforce spent in Samuel's company on Jubilee night caused Jessica no little embarrassment; as a natural result, their meetings after that had a colour of intimacy, and it was not long before Miss. Morgan and the Miss. Barmbys began to see more of each other.
Then, of course, it had to be kept dark, or she'd lose all her money. Her husband hadn't a farthing. She supported him, and they say he lived most of the time in her house. He's a regular scamp, a drinking, betting fellow. Well, it all came out, and the Barmbys turned her into the street at a moment's notice serve her right! Fanny shrieked with merriment. 'And what is she doing?
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