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Pinderwell, and on the landing she found the friendly children whom she loved. Jim followed her, and he seemed to share her views; he paused when she did and stood, sturdily defying the unknown; and so they went together into every room, and mended Mildred Caniper's fire, and returned freely to the kitchen. "We've conquered that," Helen said. "We'll conquer everything. Fear is terrible. It's ugly.
There was little to be done; she sat on a chair by the window and, because of those excessive teeth, she seemed to smile continually at Mildred Caniper's mockery of death. Outside, a cold rain was falling: it splashed on the laurel leaves by the gate and threw a shifting curtain across the moor.
She spoke aloud, but her forehead was on the letter on her knee. "No, don't, Zebedee darling dearest lover. Don't come any sooner. I don't want you to have more days of knowing than you need." The days of that week were marked by little changes for the better in Mildred Caniper's condition, by little scenes with George.
Both men ran, shouting, but it was Helen who saw George at the window of Mildred Caniper's room. She rushed into the garden where the heat was scorching, she heard his joyful "Helen!" as he saw her, and she held out her arms to him and called his name. She saw him look back. "I'll have to jump!" he shouted. "Oh, George, come quickly!"
She was nearer to Zebedee by a night, and only the daylight separated her from George and what he might demand and, outside, the moor was covered with thick snow, as cold as her own mind. A great fire burned in Mildred Caniper's room, another in the kitchen; the only buds on the poplars were frozen white ones, and the whiteness of the lawn was pitted with Halkett's footsteps.
Mildred Caniper's head had slid from the pillow and lay on her outstretched arm; the other arm, slender and round as youth, was thrown outside the bed-clothes, and only when Helen bent quite low could she see the frown of trouble between the brows. Then, feeling like a spy, she returned to the darkness of the landing where Phoebe and Jane and Christopher were wondering what she did.
The firmest intentions in that direction would have been frustrated by the sight of Mildred Caniper's cold face, and Helen saw with surprise that it was almost as it had always been. Her "Well, Helen!" was as calm as her kiss, and only when she raised her veil was her bitter need of sleep revealed.
"You have been running," Mildred Caniper said. "No, not lately." "You are very pink." "Yes." Mildred Caniper's tone changed suddenly. "And I don't know where you have been. I wish you would not run off without warning. And I could not find Miriam anywhere." From anger she sank back to helplessness. "I don't know what to take," she said, and her hands jerked on her lap.
Miriam and Rupert " The voice dropped like a stone falling into a well without a bottom, and Helen, listening for the sound of it, seemed to hear only the echoes of Mildred Caniper's memory, coming fainter and fainter from the past where the other woman made a gleam. "Miriam " she began again. "I haven't seen her." "No. Uncle Alfred has taken her away." "Ah!" Mildred said, and there was a silence.
In the drawing-room, Uncle Alfred sat on one side of the hearth and Miriam on the other. The room was softly lighted by candles and the fire, and at the dimmer end Mr. Pinderwell's bride was smiling. The sound of Mildred Caniper's needle, as she worked at an embroidery frame, was added to the noises of the fire and Uncle Alfred's regular pulling at his pipe.
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