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Kitty began to look on her school life as something roseate and delightful; but all these things were to come to a speedy end. On a certain afternoon she got home to find Alice out and Mrs. Denvers seated in the drawing-room with a great basket of mending before her. "Oh, what a lot of work! Would you like me to help you?" said Kitty. "Very much, dear; but what kept you so late?
He clapped a careless hand on the lad's shoulder as they turned up the path together towards the streaming red light. "You're a bit of a woman-hater, aren't you?" said Tommy. And Monck laughed again his short, rather bitter laugh; but he said no word in answer. In the room with the crimson-shaded lamp Stella Denvers sat waiting.
Denvers, "it was a most imprudent thing to do. But of course, the poor child meant no harm." "I should rather think she didn't," cried Fred. "The one you ought really to blame is Alice. No one would have looked at Kitty, nor thought of her one way or the other, if Alice had let her get her hat and jacket; but what was she to do when she was locked out of her own bedroom?"
Lord Ronald smiled his imperturbable smile and flicked a gnat from his sleeve. "Especially when they are futile, eh, Mrs. Denvers? I'm not fond of 'em myself. Haven't much ability for that sort of thing." "Have you any ability for anything, I wonder?" she said. He turned his smooth, good-humoured countenance towards her.
Oh, here is a letter for you." "A letter!" cried Kitty eagerly. "Oh, it is from Laurie. Hurrah! hurrah!" She forgot all about her offer to help Mrs. Denvers with her darning, tossed the letter in the air two or three times, and then sank down on the nearest ottoman to read it.
The thought of her disobedience, of the daring of her own act, but added zest and pleasure to her walk. "How happy I shall be when I get the money," she said to herself. "I'll coax Fred or Mrs. Denvers to get me a postal order to-morrow, and I'll send it to Laurie at once. Oh, what a weight will be off my mind! Why, I'll almost feel inclined to turn good again!"
She now held out her hand to Miss Sherrard. Miss Sherrard took it and pressed it gently. "You are a very good girl, Gwin; and I wish with all my heart and soul that I could grant your request." Meanwhile Kitty had returned to the Denvers' house in a whirl of passionate protest and indignation. She could not understand why she had been punished.
"You think it would bore you?" asked Fletcher. "No," she said, flushing slightly; "I think I should like it." "Well done!" he said, with quiet approval. "You are such a hermit, Mrs. Denvers, that it will be quite a novelty for us both." She met his eyes for an instant, assailed by a sudden memory of Lord Ronald's vague remarks concerning him.
Slowly at length he turned his head, just as his silence was becoming too oppressive to be borne. "Mrs. Denvers," he said, his voice very deliberate and even, "I want to know what happened that day at Farabad to make you decide that I was not a fit escort for you." It had come, then. He meant to have a reckoning with her. A sharp tingle of dismay went through her as she realised it.
You never saw anything like me before, did you? Oh, the Blarney Stone, what it has done for me. Come, Alice, come, come quick!" "What can be the matter?" called Mrs. Denvers from downstairs. "Has anything happened?" "Oh, it's only me, dear Mrs. Denvers. Do come up this minute, my dear ducky woman, and see me.
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