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Captain Bennydeck opened the door for them, secretly wishing that he could follow Mrs. Norman to the station and travel by the same train. Mrs. Presty made no attempt to remind him that she was still in the room. She was looking into the future now.
It's only a question of time. Sooner or later you will be a Widow. Here's the waiter again. What does the man want now?" The waiter answered by announcing: "Captain Bennydeck." Catherine's mother was nearer to the door than Catherine; she attracted the Captain's attention first. He addressed his apologies to her. "Pray excuse me for disturbing you " Mrs.
The one other course that he could take was to mention Captain Bennydeck's name to Sydney, and be guided by the result. As he approached the bell, determining to send a message upstairs, he heard the door opened behind him. Mrs. The Mother-in-Law. Strong as the impression was which Captain Bennydeck had produced on Randal, Mrs. Presty's first words dismissed it from his mind.
Noticing that Bennydeck looked surprised, he mentioned his motive. "Herbert is pining to see Kitty," he continued; "and I mean to help him. He has done all that a man could do to atone for the past. As things are, I believe I shall not offend Catherine, if I arrange for a meeting between father and child. What do you say?" Bennydeck answered, earnestly and eagerly: "Do it at once!"
Presty continued, with her sternest emphasis; "I see what you have done, in your face. You have refused Bennydeck." "God forgive me, I have been wicked enough to accept him!" Hearing this, some mothers might have made apologies; and other mothers might have asked what that penitential reply could possibly mean. Mrs. Presty was no matron of the ordinary type.
Give up that vain hope and stay here with me. Be useful and be happy in your own country." "Useful?" Sydney repeated sadly. "Your own kind heart, Captain Bennydeck, is deceiving you. To be useful means, I suppose, to help others. Who will accept help from me?" "I will, for one," the Captain answered. "You!" "Yes. You can be of the greatest use to me you shall hear how."
In the delusion that now possessed her she read, over and over again, the letter which Captain Bennydeck had addressed to her father; she saw, more and more clearly, the circumstances which associated her situation with the situation of the poor girl who had closed her wasted life among the nuns in a French convent. Two results followed on this state of things.
She refused to excuse him. "Before you decide," she said, "you ought at least to know why I have written to Captain Bennydeck, instead of speaking to him as I had proposed. My heart failed me when I thought of the distress that he might feel and, perhaps of the contempt of myself which, good and gentle as he is, he might not be able to disguise. My letter tells him the truth, without concealment.
Presty looked at him with some anxiety on her daughter's account, while he was reading the message on Randal's card. There was little to see. His fine face expressed a quiet sorrow, and he sighed as he put the card back in his pocket. An interval of silence followed. Captain Bennydeck was thinking over the message which he had just read.
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