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I didn't think I'd ever say to you " There it ended. "Miss Kate," Nora said, "Major Darrett wants to know if he may speak to you in the library." She went down mechanically. "Now, Katie," he began quietly and authoritatively, "there are several orders you must give, several things you must attend to, in relation to your dinner.
Katie had had an odd sense of Ann's disapproving of her disapproving of her for her not disapproving of him. More than once Ann had given her that sense of being disapproved of. As with all things in the universe just then, he was a new angle back to Ann. If he were to come there ? For Major Darrett would not at all disapprove of those eyes of Ann's.
She was thankful that the dinner itself had drawn to a close. Later, on the porch, Caroline Osborne asked for Ann. Zelda and Major Darrett and Harry Prescott were in the group at the time. "You mean she is not coming back?" she pursued in response to Katie's statement that Ann had been called away. "I don't know," said Katie. "I'm afraid not." "Who is she, Katie?" Zelda asked. "No one you know."
"Too bad we missed her," said Zelda, "especially if she would do us good. Now Cal here's going in for doing good, too. Only she's not trying to do it to the army. She's doing it to the working people." "Get the distinction," laughed the Major. "I must get hold of some stunt like that," said Zelda. "The world's getting stuntier and stuntier." She turned to Major Darrett.
Why, Katie you must have known there was some one." "Oh I knew there was some one, all right," said Katie, her voice getting higher and higher, her cheeks more and more red "only I just hadn't figured, you see, on its being some one I knew! Why how under the sun," she asked, laughing wildly, "did you ever meet Major Darrett?" "I I'll try to tell you," faltered Ann miserably. "I want to.
Their friend Major Darrett once said: "When I meet Katie I have a fancy she has just come from a jolly dip in the ocean; that she lay on the sands in the sun and kicked up her heels longer than she had any business to, and now she's flying along to keep the most enchanting engagement she ever had in all her life.
He has a true sense of values because he knows Katherine Wayneworth Jones for the most desirable thing in all the world." It did surprise her, and the surprise grew. None of them had thought of Major Darrett as what they called a marrying man. And on the heels of the surprise came a certain sense of triumph.
It would get her away from Captain Prescott and his mother, and from Major Darrett, who was coming in a few days. Katie believed Ann would like to be away from them all for about a week, and get her bearings anew. And Katie herself would like to be alone for a time and get her bearings, too, and make some plans. In one way or other she was going to help Ann find her real Something Somewhere.
He writhed under a picture of that old man bending over her of that other man bully, brute thick awful lips snatching at her as a dog at meat. And then still another man. That first man. Darrett. His friend. His sort. The man who could so skillfully use the lure of love to rob life
She had never known Katie to vie with Zelda Fraser in saying those daring things. Katie, though so merry, had seemed a different type. But to-night Katie and Zelda and Major Darrett kept things very lively. Katie was telling her distinguished guest the tale of the champagne glasses.
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