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Diana turned and beckoned to Mrs. Colwood. The two ladies went toward the drawing-room, Mr. Ferrier showing the way. When he returned to the hall, Sir James Chide, its sole occupant, was walking up and down. "Who was that young lady?" said Sir James, turning abruptly. "Isn't she charming? Her name is Mallory and she has just settled at Beechcote, near here. That small fair lady was her companion.
But one can't know unless one has lived has breathed in a country, from one's birth. That's what I've lost." Mrs. Colwood demurred. "Think of the people who wish they had grown up without ever reading or hearing about the Bible, so that they might read it for the first time, when they could really understand it. You feel England all the more intensely now because you come fresh to her."
"Will you please call me Diana? And and will you kiss me?" She humbly stooped her head. Mrs. Colwood, much touched, threw her arms around her, and kissed her heartily. Then a few warm words fell from her as to the scene of the evening. Diana withdrew herself at once, shivering a little. "Oh, I want papa!" she said "I want him so much!" And she hid her eyes against the mantel-piece. Mrs.
For she looked round her, bowed to him slightly, and disappeared with Mrs. Colwood. He spent two or three hours at Lytchett, making the first arrangements for the funeral, with Sir James. It was to be at Tallyn, and the burial in the churchyard of the old Tallyn church.
Then the party had broken up. Mr. Birch had been offended by the absence of the hostess, and had vouchsafed but a careless good-bye to Miss Merton. The Roughsedges went off without asking her to visit them; and as for the Captain, he was an odious young man. Since their departure, Mrs. Colwood had neglected her, and now Diana's secret return, her long talk with Mrs.
Fanny Merton was silent for a minute staring at her companion. Then she said, abruptly: "Does she ever talk to you about Aunt Sparling?" "Her mother?" The girl nodded. Mrs. Colwood hesitated then said, unwillingly: "No. She has mentioned her once or twice. One can see how she missed her as a child how she misses her still."
She went off embracing it. Mrs. Colwood was left with two impressions one sharp, the other vague. One was that Mr. Oliver Marsham might easily become a personage in the story of which she had just, as it were, turned the first leaf. The other was connected with the name on the despatch-box. Why did it haunt her?
Colwood brought it out." He searched the grass in vain, and the chairs. Lady Lucy was silent. Presently she rose feebly. "When when will they take him away?" "Directly. The ambulance is coming I shall go with him. Take my arm." She leaned on him heavily, and as they approached the house they saw two figures step out of it Marsham and Diana. Diana came quickly, in her light white dress.
Brown withdrew, and Diana, with a laughing face and her hands over her ears, to mitigate the farewell bawling of the children, turned to Mrs. Colwood, with an invitation to dress for church. "The first time for me," she explained. "I have been coming up and down, for a month or more, two or three days at a time, to see to the furnishing. But now I am at home!"
But the word died on her lips; she turned abruptly away, adding, hurriedly, in another tone: "If you ever want anything, you know we're always here Mrs. Colwood and I. Please give us your address." "Thanks." Fanny retreated; but could not forbear, as she reached the door, from letting loose the thought which burned her inner mind. She turned round deliberately. "Mr.
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