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Jackson owned gloomily, and the topic lasted until the fruit was handed round. "I wonder," said Mrs. Jowett to her hostess, as she peeled a pear, "if you have met a newcomer in Priorsford Miss Reston? She has taken Miss Bathgate's rooms." "You mean the Honourable Pamela Reston?
Pamela Reston stood in Bella Bathgate's parlour and surveyed it disconsolately. It was papered in a trying shade of terra-cotta and the walls were embellished by enlarged photographs of the Bathgate family decent, well-living people, but plain-headed to a degree. Linoleum covered the floor.
"Well, at present Mawson and I are rather like Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday on the island...." Pamela stopped and looked out of the window for inspiration. Miss Bathgate's parlour was not alluring, but the view from it was a continual feast spreading fields, woods that in this yellowing time of the year were a study in old gold, the winding river, and the blue hills beyond.
"It's a lovely egg really, such a beautiful colour, but" she laughed apologetically "you know how it is with eggs either you can eat them or you can't. I always have to eat eggs with my head turned away so to speak. There is something about the yolk so so " Her voice trailed away under Miss Bathgate's stolid, unsmiling gaze.
"I canna mind the exact name, but she's ca'ed the Honourable an' she's bringin' a leddy's maid." "Gosh, Maggie!" ejaculated Jock. "I asked you not to say that, Jock," Jean reminded him. "Ay," Mrs. M'Cosh continued, "Bella Bathgate's kinna pit oot aboot it. She disna ken how she's to cook for an Honourable she niver saw yin." "Have you seen one?" Jock asked.
"I always did regard the Politician as a fabulous monster. But tell me, Pam, how long is this to continue? Are you so enamoured of the simple life that you can go on indefinitely living in Miss Bathgate's parlour and eating stewed steak and duck's eggs?" Pamela dropped her embroidery-frame, looked at her brother with a puzzled frown, and gave a long sigh.
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