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And he stalked in front of her along the library passage, his brilliant white hair gleaming in its shadows. It was well perhaps that he did not see the amusement which played round Elizabeth Bremerton's handsome mouth as she pursued him. Tea was laid on a flagged walk under a glazed pergola running along part of the southern wall of the house.
But he was accustomed to be treated with a certain deference, and in Miss Bremerton's manner there was none whatever. 'Well, good-bye, Pamela. I mustn't miss your father. When are you coming over to see Beryl? 'How am I to get there? said the girl with a sudden laugh. 'Oh, I see, you've got no petrol allowance? 'How should we? Nobody's doing any war work here.
She tried to fill Miss Bremerton's place, and of course it didn't answer. She's too young, and my father too exacting. Then when it broke down, and he took things out of her hands again, comparing her, of course, enormously to her disadvantage with Miss Bremerton, Pamela lost her temper and said foolish things of Miss Bremerton. Whereupon fury on my father's part and sudden departure on Pamela's.
Mrs. Strang's stiff manner, and the silence of the others showed the Squire that he was deep in his daughters' black books. Was he also charged with Miss Bremerton's headache? Did any of them guess what had happened? He fancied from the puzzled look in Pamela's eyes as she said good-night to him that she guessed something. Well, he wasn't going to tell them anything.
'You remember that child of old Leonard the blacksmith? said the Rector eagerly; 'a shocking case of bow-legs, one of the worst I ever saw. But Miss Bremerton's taken endless trouble. And now we've got an admission for him to the Orthopaedic hospital. But there's a few pounds to be raised for his maintenance it will be a question of months.
I thought there was a housekeeper? 'She went a month ago to the W.A.A.C.'s. Please! do you mind? And to his amazement, as he was putting out his hand automatically to a piece of bread lying on his left, Miss Bremerton's hand holding a fork neatly intercepted him, and moved the bread away. 'It's our "Self-denying Ordinance," explained the lady, colouring a little.
'Aubrey told you, I suppose? What was the good of staying? I couldn't do anything right. I was only making things worse. 'I can hardly believe that! Couldn't you just have kept Miss Bremerton's work going till she came back? 'I tried, said Pamela stiffly, 'and it didn't do. 'Perhaps she attempts too much. But she seemed to me to be very sensible and human.
But she would have liked very much to know whether there was anything up between him and Pamela. Really, Miss Bremerton's discretion about such things was too tiresome ridiculous almost rude! It was no good trying, even, to discuss them with her. As to the disinheriting of Aubrey, no more had been heard of it.
I have them in one of my notebooks. And she began to search her table. Mannering stopped her ungraciously. 'Of course there's always some learned fool behind every bad reading. Anyway, what do you say to those accents? He pointed severely to another line of her Greek. This time Miss Bremerton's countenance changed. 'Oh dear, what a blunder! she said in distress, as she bent over her pages.
He wants somebody to look after Pamela, and set him free for his hobbies. He'll very soon find out that this woman fills the part, and that, if he marries her, he'll get a classical secretary besides. Mrs. Strang's voice a deep husky voice interposed. 'Miss Bremerton's not a woman to be married against her will, that you may be sure of, Alice.
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