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It unnerved me dreadfully. I do think, Edmund, those drivers ought to be more careful. I was saying to Mrs. Conisbee only the other day and that reminds me, I do so want to know all about your visit to Clevedon. Dear, dear Clevedon! And have you really taken a house there, Edmund? Oh, if we could all end our days at Clevedon!
Of course there must be an extra payment. The room is small for two persons, but then the arrangement would only be temporary. My sister is a good and experienced teacher, and I am sure she will have no difficulty in obtaining another engagement. Mrs. Conisbee reflected, but without a shade of discontent. By this time she knew that her lodger was thoroughly to be trusted.
And the worst of it is I have altogether lost my appetite by the time I get back. I couldn't eat a mouthful of food not a mouthful I assure you I couldn't. And it does so distress good Mrs. Conisbee. She is exceedingly kind to me exceedingly careful about my health. Oh, and in Battersea Park Road I saw such a shocking sight; a great cart ran over a poor little dog, and it was killed on the spot.
I was obliged to call Mrs. Conisbee But don't think anything about it. It's all over. The weather is very trying She laughed nervously and began to pat Monica's hand. The girl was not quite satisfied, and pressed many questions, but in the end she accepted Virginia's assurances that nothing serious had happened. Then her own business occupied her; she sat down, and said with a smile,
She began to talk in a hurried, disconnected way, trying to explain that she had not been quite well, and was not yet properly dressed. 'What a strange smell! Monica exclaimed, looking about the room. 'It's like brandy. 'You notice it? I have I was obliged to get to ask Mrs. Conisbee for I don't want to alarm you, dear, but I felt rather faint. Indeed, I thought I should have a fainting fit.
He rose abruptly. 'Perhaps you had better come and see us to-morrow. 'But Monica left a message that she wouldn't be at home for the next few days, and that I wasn't to come till I heard from her. 'Not at home ? I think there's a mistake. 'Oh, impossible! We'll ask Mrs. Conisbee. She went to the door and called. From the landlady Widdowson learnt exactly what Monica had said.
It was her purpose to have a short conversation with Virginia, who knew of the trip to Clevedon, and to speak as though she were quite reconciled to the thought of removal; after that, she would pursue her journey so as to reach Bayswater by four o'clock. But Virginia was not at home. Mrs. Conisbee said she had gone out at eleven in the morning, and with the intention of returning by teatime.
But he did not once look back. 'And now to God the Father. The bustle throughout the church wakened her from reverie so complete that she knew not a syllable of the sermon. After all she must deceive her sisters by inventing a text, and perhaps a comment. By an arrangement with Mrs. Conisbee, dinner was down in the parlour to-day.
Conisbee, sympathetic in her crude way, would see that the invalid wanted for nothing. Her destination was a plain, low roomy old house in Queen's Road, over against the hospital gardens. On asking for Miss Nunn, she was led to a back room on the ground floor, and there waited for a few moments.
'You must remember what her life has been, dear. I'm afraid loneliness is very often a cause 'She needn't have been lonely. She refused to come and live at Herne Hill, and now of course I understand why. Mrs. Conisbee must have known about it, and it was her duty to tell me. Mr. Widdowson had found out somehow, I feel sure. She explained the reason of this belief.
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