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But Mildred Caniper did not want to be energetic: she sat by the fire in a cushioned wicker chair, and when Helen looked at the lax figure and the loosened lines of the face she recognized the woman who had made confession to relieve a mind that had finished with all struggling.
"Philip is ill," she said in a voice carried by her thoughts to a great distance. She corrected herself. "Your father is ill." She picked up the envelope and looked at it. "That's why his writing is so straggly." She seemed to be thinking not only of Philip Caniper, but of many things besides, so that her words, like her thoughts, came through obstacles.
You're like Beatrix Esmond coming down the stairs. Excellent!" A touch from Helen silenced him as Mildred Caniper and her brother turned the corner of the passage. They both stood still at the sight of this dark-clad vision which rested immobile for an instant before it smiled brilliantly and finished the flight. "This is Miriam," Mildred Caniper said in hard tones.
And, though she did not know it, Zebedee, loving her truly, understood the workings of her mind, and his double misery lessened to a single one when he saw her growing more content. He went to Pinderwell House one fine evening, for there were few days when he could find time to drive up the long road, and though Mildred Caniper did not need his care, she looked for his coming every week.
"But it's your cat." Wearing what the Canipers called her deaf expression, their stepmother looked at the closing door. "I did not hear what Miriam said," she remarked blandly. "She was talking to me." "Oh!" Mrs. Caniper flushed slowly. "It is discourteous to have private conversations in public, Helen. I have tried to impress that on you unsuccessfully, it seems; but remember that I have tried."
He turned to ask, "How often does that beast get washed?" She looked at him vaguely. "Who?" "That dog." "Oh once a fortnight." "Who does it?" "John or I." "You let him sleep with you?" "Outside my door." "I think he ought to be inside. I'm going over to see John. You can't live here alone. And, Helen, I've not given up my right to you. You shall come to me when Mrs. Caniper sets you free."
I got turbot for Uncle Alfred. It's on the kitchen table." "Then I expect the cat has eaten it," said Mrs. Caniper with resignation, but her mouth widened delightfully into what might have been its natural shape. "Miriam, go and put it in the larder." Surreptitiously and in farewell, Miriam dropped the poker on Helen's toes. "Why can't she send you?" she muttered. "It's your turbot."
It was not the real Mildred Caniper who had told that story in the night; it was the one who, weakened by illness, was content to sit with folded hands by the fireside. She dimmed the sun for Helen and robbed the spring of hope.
Yet only a few seconds earlier she had thought he was the tinker. Oh, why had Rupert ever told her of the tinker? "I would rather you did not wander on the moor so late at night," Mildred Caniper said. "But it's the best time of all." "I would rather you did not." "Very well. I'll try to remember." A sign from Miriam drew Helen into the garden. "Silly of you to come in by the front way.
"Then let us go to her at once." Mildred Caniper cut short the interview, saying, "Take him away, Helen. I'm tired. I'm always tired now." "Come into Jane," Helen said when they were on the landing. "No one will disturb us there. Let Jim come, too." "He isn't fit to be in your bedroom, dear. Neither am I. And how like you it is!" "It's cold," she said.
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