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How well she remembered the day on which Marjorie had received the blue dress which Constance was wearing so unconcernedly. It had come by express in a huge white pasteboard box, while she and Marjorie were seated on the Deans' step engaged in one of their long confabs. How excited they had been over it! How they had exclaimed as Marjorie drew the blue wonder from its pasteboard nest.
With Kitty there were little hurried confabs each day outside the apartment door in the hallway before the elevator shaft. A veil of awe seemed to wrap the Drew woman. "I can't get it out of my head, Hester. It's like a fairy story, and, in another way, it's a scream Wheeler standing for this." "Sh-h, Kitty! His ears are so sensitive." "Quit shushing me every time I open my mouth. Poor kid!
He takes her to ride almost every day, and they have interminable walks and daily confabs together." "Well, I should think the child's lessons would come off slim, Miss Gay." "O, that's only a subterfuge. They'll be married 'fore one year has gone by." "I do not believe Hugh Wyman will ever marry again," said one who knew his character better than the others.
I am entirely at your disposal," said Peggy elegantly; and the young people made their way to the cloak-room, swung on coats and sailor hats, and sallied out into the fresh autumn air. "Mariquita," said Robert then, using once more the name by which he chose to address Peggy in their confidential confabs, "Mariquita, I am in difficulties!
"'You will have managed to bring him to his senses at last, Mirren dear, said she; and then I found that these two had been having the great confabs when I would be away, and my wife has told me since, when she was new-fangled wi' me, and very loving, that she would just be going there to be listening to my mother's stories about me, when I would be a wean; and although I will be telling her that the things I am remembering most are the skelpings I would be getting, she just will be laughing at me.
Outwardly it meant that the secret was mine, not hers; that she had nothing to do with it; but then there was another secret the fact that she was my sole confidante in a matter of this nature and this secret was ours in common On one occasion, in the course of one of these confabs of ours, she said, with ill-concealed malice: "Do you really think she cared for you?
These confabs were a delight to the children. They had many of them on the hearthrug in the firelight, their father leaning back in his chair and smoking his pipe whilst he listened and talked. 'A plan is sure to be nice, said True, 'and Lady Isobel's will be much better than the ones we make up, Bobby. So all that day they puzzled their heads over what it could be.
Hanway-Harley would have Storri to the library in engagingly familiar fashion. Senator Hanway went always to his study after dinner, to receive visitors through that veranda door, and prune and train the vine of his Presidential hopes with confabs and new plans, into which he and those visitors who were folk of power in their home States unreservedly plunged. Mr.
"Whoever named you Lilly was right," she said upon one of these midnight confabs so immemoriably dear to women, when hairpins can be removed and the dig of skirt bands unhooked. "You're so snowy, and soft, too; you feel like a kitten's ear. And that shining head of yours!" "But all my life I've wanted to be blond. Sun people I call them."
The sexes meet for Chris'mas-trees an' such-like." "I'm jealous that 'twon't be the same. You can't hold your triflin' confabs with a great Chris'mas-tree blazin' away in your face as important as a town afire." "Well, I'm going to start along," the old woman decided, getting on her feet; "or else someone 'll be driving by and seeing us." Jan, too, stood up.
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