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Jinx followed him, moving sedately back and forth, now and then glancing up with idolatrous eyes. Willy Cameron's mind was active and not particularly coordinate. The Cardews and Lily; Edith Boyd and Louis Akers; the plain people; an army marching to the city to loot and burn and rape, and another army meeting it, saying: "You shall not pass"; Abraham Lincoln, Russia, Lily.
It was natural that the three young people should start on in front. Maggie talked on various subjects; but although the Tristrams were most anxious to get opinions from her with regard to the Cardews, she could not be led to talk of them until they were approaching the house. It was now nearly eleven o'clock, and a perfect summer night.
He had no hope of seeing Lily, but the mere thought that they were under one roof gave him a sense of nearness and of comfort in her safety. Dinner was recently over, and he found both the Cardews, father and son, in the library smoking.
He did not know, nor would have cared had he known, that her acceptance of his invitation was a complex of disgust of home, of the call of youth, and of the fact that Willy Cameron was dining at the Cardews that night. Howard Cardew was in his dressing room, sitting before the fire. His man had put out his dinner clothes and retired, and Howard was sifting before the fire rather listlessly.
Only old Maureen, who so often mixed up the present and the past, would talk of the Cardews as though their name had never been banned, as though they still came and went as friends and intimates at Aghadoe Abbey as in the days before the trouble came about Uncle Luke.
Lucy comes to us and wakes us at that hour, and we are expected to be downstairs at seven. Lucy will tell you, too, girls, that it is expected of us all that we shall keep our rooms in perfect order. Now, shall we say good-night?" The Cardews kissed their cousin and went to their own pleasant room. As soon as they were there Merry said, "Cicely, I am glad about poor Maggie."
This very fact, however, took somewhat from her appearance, and gave her the look of a grown-up girl, whereas she was still only a child. As soon as ever the girls got out of earshot, Aneta turned to Maggie and said gravely, "My cousins the Cardews are to join us all at Aylmer House in September." Maggie longed to say, "Thank you for nothing," but she never dared to show rudeness to Aneta.
She had played with that thought before, and the roomer she had had in mind was Willy Cameron. But the knowledge that he knew the Cardews had somehow changed all that. She couldn't picture him going from this sordid house to the Cardew mansion, and worse still, returning to it afterwards.
Maggie had a good deal to tell them with regard to the new school, and they had a great deal to tell her with regard to the Cardews. Just as they were entering the avenue Maggie turned and faced her two companions. "May I say something?" she asked eagerly. "Why, of course, Mags," said Molly.
It was more than that; it was tragic. "Sorry I said anything, Cameron. Didn't know you knew her." "That's all right. Of course I don't like to think she is being talked about." "The Cardews are always being talked about. You couldn't drop her a hint, I suppose?" "She knows what I think about Louis Akers." He made a violent effort and pulled himself together.
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