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Updated: June 23, 2025
They went into the dining-room, where the sunlight poured in upon her mother's chiffonier, and upstairs, where many an old god peeped from a new niche. The furniture fitted extraordinarily well. In the central room over the hall, the room that Helen had slept in four years ago Miss Avery had placed Tibby's old bassinette. "The nursery," she said. Margaret turned away without speaking.
"We'd better keep him warm, hadn't we?" suggested Alfred, remembering Aggie's previous instructions on a similar occasion. "I'll put him in his crib," he decided, and thereupon he made a quick move toward the bassinette. Staggering back from the cradle with the unsteadiness of a drunken man Alfred called upon the Diety.
The baby of course a new baby lay in a bassinette near its mother, seemingly asleep; the other child was sitting in a high chair by the table, clattering 'bricks. Bessie did not even look round. 'Is Mr. Byass late? inquired Jane, in an apprehensive voice. 'He's somewhere in the house, I believe, was the answer, in monotone.
"Did you ever encourage me to give you my confidence? You patted me on the head, too, and never concerned yourself about my affairs. I was afraid of you deadly afraid of you. It sounds rather silly now, doesn't it? But I was." Zora made no protest against the accusation. She sat quite still, her eyes fixed on the foot of the bassinette, adjusting her soul to new and startling conceptions.
He noticed and told me how many of the former neglected their charges, standing about, flirting or gossiping, or looking into shop windows, while the baby in the bassinette or the mail-cart sucked away at that vile invention the bone and gutta-percha 'soother, and he was astonished that ladies should apparently consider it beneath them to accompany baby on the promenade.
This interest in Fleurette touched Patty's mother heart, and she consented. "Can I go this way?" said Azalea, looking at her kimono. This garment was, not entirely to Patty's surprise, a horror of gaily flowered silkoline, but as they would see no one but the nurse, she said, "Yes; come along." To the nursery they went and there, in her bassinette lay the baby, asleep.
Zora laughed, meaning to be kind and generous, to make it evident to Emmy that she had not come as a violent partisan of Septimus, and to lay a pleasant, familiar foundation for the discussion in prospect. But Emmy resented the note of disparagement. "Of course he did," she said shortly. Zora flew to the bassinette and glowed womanlike over the baby. A beautiful child, one to be proud of indeed.
Instead, Zoie turned her back upon him. "Let's see it," she said, peeping into the bassinette. And then with a little cry of disgust she again looked at Jimmy reproachfully. "Isn't it ugly?" she said. Jimmy's contempt for woman's ingratitude was too deep for words, and he only stared at her in injured silence.
On a rose-coloured couch in front of the fire sat Aggie threading ribbons through various bits of soft white linen, and in front of her, at the foot of a rose-draped bed, knelt Zoie. She was trying the effect of a large pink bow against the lace flounce of an empty but inviting bassinette.
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