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Updated: May 19, 2025
With a heart-breaking coldness I felt that I was her only unmoved auditor, or no; Ned seemed studying with weary disapproval the pattern of his shoes. "Love and death; and at a wedding!" Mrs. Van Dam shivered. "Something more cheerful, Helen." "Let's go let's go and eat up Cadge's spread; that'd be cheerful," sniffed Kitty, her hot, nervous hand patting Helen's shoulder. "The Princess's tired.
As the truth slowly won over him, he straightened himself, one hand still clasping Helen's cold one. "It's sudden; sudden," he said. "Doctor, w'at ailed my little Nelly?" Still numbly inquisitive, I waited. The old man couldn't see the truth, the horrible truth. What would the doctor say? It was Cadge's voice that broke the silence; gentle, assured, yet with a note almost of defiance.
"We think in fact, Helen overstudied," she said. "We've been much worried about her." Dr. Upton turned abruptly. Cadge's irregular, mobile face for once was still, its quiet demand bent full upon him. His answering look refused her, but the effort was obvious with which he spoke to the broken man waiting his verdict. "Miss Winship your daughter " he began. The words died.
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