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I'm not going to sacrifice a job I fancy, and thirty shillings a week, to be general servant to those two old women, and that's flat." "But the ticket-collecting only lasts until the end of September," urged Mrs. Creddle, flushed and perturbed. "What shall you do then?" "I don't know," said Caroline. "I mean to learn typewriting and shorthand somehow, and then I shall be a clerk."
But, of course, if you were engaged only she and Wilf weren't engaged. They'd been "going together," of course, but she had no ring. She had never considered herself really engaged. Neither had Aunt Creddle
"I've changed my mind all of a sudden because I only heard of another opening this morning. I never wanted to go to the Cottage; it was all Aunt Creddle. She always promised I should, when I got to be nineteen, and I didn't seem as if I could get out of it." "Well!" He jerked the reins.
Still Miss Ethel saw that Caroline was offended, so added after a pause: "If Mrs. Creddle approves of your going, of course it is not my affair. But you must see for yourself that I could not let a girl under my roof stay out until midnight without asking the question. That would be fair neither to you nor to myself." "No," muttered Caroline. "I didn't mean anything either.
And you can't waken Mrs. Bradford. She wraps her head up in her petticoat and sleeps like the dead." "Well, it's a lucky thing I happened to be up finishing the ironing," said Mrs. Creddle. "Your uncle wouldn't have liked it if you'd come hammering at our door and letting the whole street know you were locked out."
Now she was racing in a whirl of emotion down Emerald Avenue and round the next turn into Pearl Terrace, where her aunt Mrs. Creddle lived. Strangers wondered to see the newer streets in Thorhaven all named after precious stones, but the reason was simple enough.
They two seemed very close together in the midst of the storm and wind. "Why, whatever made you come out like this?" said Caroline, removing the wet cloak. "You must have wanted a job, aunt." Mrs. Creddle shook her head, her hand on her heart for she was a stout woman and upset by her tussle with the elements. "You may be sure that it was something that wouldn't keep," she said at last.
Of course it was the money troubles which everybody seemed to know about She was about to repeat the question about Aunt Creddle, when Laura came out of the room, and Godfrey immediately said with an air of relief: "Oh, here is Miss Temple. She will be able to tell you better than I can."
The whole situation, as it might have been, opened out in front of her for a moment or two, bristling with unpleasantnesses, and she glanced down at the edge of colour appearing under her coat with a distinct regret that she had been persuaded by Mrs. Creddle into wearing the dress. Better far to have stopped at home. Then there was Wilf, taking her arm with cool possessiveness. "Come on, Carrie!
Well! I might have taken him away from her altogether. He wanted to throw her over, only I wouldn't have it." "Oh!" Mrs. Creddle gasped; then went on in a low tone of apprehension and unhappiness. "I didn't think it was as bad as that, Carrie." "Bad!" Caroline stared with genuine surprise at this reception of her bomb-shell. "He wanted to marry me, I tell you." Mrs. Creddle shook her head.
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