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But he had other calls to make, he said, and went away, his big hands clasped behind him; his head bent, smiling one minute and shaking his head the next. Diantha leaned against a pearly eucalyptus trunk and watched him. She would miss Dr. Major. But who was this approaching? Her heart sank miserably. Mrs. Warden and all the girls. She went to meet them perforce. Mrs.
Persis, who was intensely alive to every phase of the dramatic situation, had caught a glimpse of the young fellow's face during the affectionate leave-taking and was abundantly satisfied. "Thad's no fool, though he's acted like the twin brother to an idiot. He can't help seeing that the mother of a grown-up girl like Diantha hadn't ought to be flirting with a boy like him.
Supper's all ready, and I can see him coming time enough to run back. Why, Mother! What's the matter? You're crying!" "Am I?" asked Mrs. Bell weakly; wiping her eyes in a dazed way. "What are you doing to Mother, Diantha?" demanded young Mrs. Peters. "Bless me! I thought you and she never had any differences! I was always the black sheep, when I was at home. Maybe that's why I left so early!"
Jessup, and were delighted to have a house of their own with the parlors and piazzas all to themselves, and a garden to sit in as well. If this depleted their ranks by marriage, it did not matter now, for there was a waiting list in training all the time. Union House kept on evenly and profitably, and Diantha was beginning to feel safe and successful; but the years looked long before her.
When she had Diantha with her she opened fire direct. "You ought to be the happiest, proudest, most triumphant woman in the world!" she said. "You're making oodles of money, your whole thing's going well, and look at your mother she's made over!"
Diantha acquired quite a list of offers; places open to her as soon as she was free; at prices from her present seven dollars up to the proposed doubling. "Fourteen dollars a week and found! that's not so bad," she meditated. "That would mean over $650 clear in a year! It's a wonder to me girls don't try it long enough to get a start at something else.
"I don't see," said her lover, "but that my strenuous Amazon is just as much a woman as as any woman!" "Who ever said I wasn't?" quoth Diantha demurely. A month of perfect happiness. It was so short it seemed but a moment; so long in its rich perfection that they both agreed if life brought no further joy this was Enough. Then they came down from the mountains and began living.
How about what you owe to me for all the care and pains and cost it's been to bring you up. A child's a rather expensive investment these days." Diantha flushed, she had expected this, and yet it struck her like a blow. It was not the first time she had heard it this claim of filial obligation. "I have considered that position, Father. I know you feel that way you've often made me feel it.
"They weren't brought up that way," said Mrs. Bell. "Their mother don't approve of it. She thinks the home is the place for a woman and so does Ross and so do I," she added rather faintly. Diantha put her pan of white puff-balls into the oven, sliced a quantity of smoked beef in thin shavings, and made white sauce for it, talking the while as if these acts were automatic. "I don't agree with Mrs.
Now, that Jennings girl looks like a little picture." But that last speech of Grandmother Wheeler's undid all the previous good. Mrs. Diantha had an unacknowledged even to herself disapproval of Mrs. Jennings which dated far back in the past, for a reason which was quite unworthy of her and of her strong mind. When she and Lily's mother had been girls, she had seen Mrs.
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