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Updated: May 25, 2025
But daylight brought comfort to Enid Crofton, and after she had had her early cup of tea and had enjoyed her nice hot bath, she felt quite cheery again, and her strange, bad night faded into nothingness. She was young, she was strong, above all she was enchantingly pretty!
"When may we see her?" Mrs. Crofton pursued. "You may all see her for a moment before she wakens, if you wish. Afterward her mother and father for just a word, and I am told she expressed a very strong wish to see a young man who was on his way. Has he come? For the sake of her contentment I have agreed to allow him a word with her by and by just a word, if he will be very quiet."
He ran to be made neat for his walk with his mother. He knew he must have the wet curl on his forehead twice over to day, but he comforted himself with hoping that there would be no time at Crofton for him to be kept standing, to have his hair done so particularly, and to be scolded all the while, and then kissed, like a baby, at the end.
If Mr Crofton likes to lead on the rest and try to get across the frontier, he may do so, but I'll stick by you, Jack. Don't be afraid." "Thank you, Bill, thank you!" said Jack, pressing his old messmate's hand, scarcely knowing what he was saying, but thinking somehow that they were again boys together. "You were always a brave, generous chap, and I know you'd never desert a shipmate."
Of course you must wear it, and you'll be the star of the evening." Rosalie rushed on, having settled the questions out of hand, after the manner of the youthful. Jeannette was laughing as she called her mother in to confirm the decision. Mrs. Crofton, languidly interested, surveyed her niece with approval.
It's you who ought to be in a hurry, Mrs. Crofton." He waited a moment and then added: "India is a very nice place." "Yes, indeed. Full of tigers and leopards!" she said playfully. "I should go as soon as you can if I were you." She looked at him distrustfully. What exactly did he mean? "Someone we wot of got off very lightly at the inquest."
She heard the man's name, "Mr. Crofton Braman," softly spoken by her escort, and she acknowledged the introduction formally and walked to the door, where she stood looking out into the street. Braman repelled her she did not know why.
And at that Dolly, who had a most unfortunate habit of blurting out just those things which, even if people are thinking of, they mostly leave unsaid, exclaimed: "Your husband bred terriers, didn't he? Flick came from him." Mrs. Crofton made no answer to this, and Janet, who was looking at her, saw her face alter. A curious expression of was it pain? it looked more like fear, came over it.
Now and again he would call there in his car, and take Mrs. Crofton for a long drive; but they never went out alone either Dolly or Rosamund, and invariably Timmy, would be of the party. As the days went on, each member of the Tosswill family began to have a definite and, so to speak, crystallised view of Enid Crofton.
"I know what I would do?" said Hugh, decidedly. "I would tell Mr Tooke all about it, and ask him for half-a-crown." "Mr Tooke? Oh! I dare not." "I dare, in holiday-time. He is your master, next to being your father, while your father is so far away. You had better ask Mr Tooke, to be sure." "What go to Crofton, and speak to him? I really want not to be a coward, but I never could go and tell him."
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