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I told you Desire wouldn't understand your attentions to Mary. Though I admit I did not dream she would take them quite so seriously. I don't envy you your explanations." "Aunt " "Wait a moment, Benis. On second thought, if I were you I would not explain at all. Simply tell her she is mistaken and stick to that. She may believe you. Desire will come around. I have a feeling " "My dear Aunt!"
"The evening train, tonight?" "Yes." He smiled. "She is a sudden person. Gone today and here tomorrow. But you will like her. And you will adore her clothes." "Are they the very latest?" "Later than that. Mary always buys yesterday what most women buy tomorrow." "Oh," said Desire. "And what does this futurist lady look like?" Benis considered.
Those selfish people did not wish their Indian wives to wear the family jewels. Benis! You will break that cup if you balance it so carelessly. What I want to know is, what are you going to do about it?" "Not being a resident of British Columbia, I cannot do anything, Aunt. But I think you will find that since women got the vote the matter has been adjusted." "I do not understand you.
"Perhaps I should never have married if I had not got away from the comparison, I mean." "There was a danger, I suppose. But," with renewed grief, "Oh, Benis, such a wedding! No cards, no cake and in pyjamas oh!" "Come now, Aunt, don't give way! And do you feel that it is quite right to criticise the clergy? I always fancy that it is the first step toward free-thinking.
As we have noted before, he liked to be truthful when possible. "How'd'do, Aunt! However did you get here?" "How I came," replied Aunt Caroline, "is not material. The fact that I am here is sufficient." "Quite," said Benis. "But," he added in a puzzled tone, "you are not alone. Surely, my dear Aunt, I see " "You see Dr. Rogers who has kindly accompanied me." "John Rogers here? With you?"
"Certainly," said Spence. "That is to say, I can be fairly exact. Would you like me to begin now? If you have nothing to do until dinner I can get you nicely started. And there is a course of reading " Aunt Caroline stopped him with dignity. "Thank you, Benis. I infer that the subject is a complicated one. Therefore I will word my question more simply.
It was a heavenly day. The mountains lifted them-selves out of veils of tinted mist, the islands lay like jewels but Aunt Caroline, impervious to mere scenery, turned her thought severely inward. "I suppose," she said to her now subdued escort, "that we shall have to pay the secretary a month's salary. Benis will scarcely wish to take him back east with us."
All that I have ever required of my sister's child has been ordinary docility and reliance upon my superior sense and judgment. Now when I find that, in a matter so serious as marriage, neither my wishes nor my judgment have been considered, I am not surprised. I may be shocked, outraged, overwhelmed, but I am not surprised." "Bravo!" said Benis involuntarily.
S.O.S. Aunt Caroline has just 'phoned to know whether all letter-writing is barred or if not, wouldn't it be helpful if you were to drop a line to a few of your young-friends? For herself she expects nothing, but she does think, etc., etc., etc.! Come back! Comprising a lengthy letter from, Benis Spence to John Rogers, M.D. DEAR and Venerable Bones: Your fatherly letter came too late.
She had thought it best that he should be left alone to tell it, so the doctor had gone on to visit another patient, promising to call for her as he came back. Desire waited. And, as she waited, she thought. And, as she thought, she questioned. What had Benis meant when he had said, in that whimsical way of his, "Well, my dear, it is your idea"? If he had not approved of it, why hadn't he said so?
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