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But since Dierdre proved herself ready to die for Brian, I do admire if I don't like her. As for Julian would it be possible, Padre, to miss a person you almost hate? Anyhow, when I tried to imagine how I should feel if I went back to the garden and saw him dead, I grew quite giddy and ill. How queer we are, we human things! But no one was hurt.
Now and then she insisted upon getting out of the cab to try her strength, and Dierdre would obediently have taken her in tow, in order to hand me over to "Jule," if I hadn't been mulishly obstinate.
Only when several of us were huddled together, with a foot each on the sacred spot, were we told that it meant marriage before the new year. If the spell works, Dierdre O'Farrell, Brian, and I will all be married in less than four months. But St. Nicolas is a false prophet where we are concerned. Brian and I will never marry.
His excuse was that Mother Beckett would deal out more wisely than Dierdre his Red Cross supplies to the returned refugees; so we had the girl with us; and I caught reproachful glances if I was slow in answering my blind brother. She herself suspects him as a poseur, yet she judges me careless of his needs which I should find funny, if it didn't make me furious!
"She shall know you as you are my true and brave little friend!" Brian said. He can find his way about wonderfully, even in a house with which he is merely making acquaintance: besides, Sirius was with him. But he felt an immense tenderness for Dierdre after that desperate confession.
Nobody could once he'd found the way in." "It must be hard finding the way in!" Dierdre said. "It is at first alone, without help. That's why, if I can, I want to help my fellow blind men to get there." "Only men? Not women, too?" "I've never met a blind woman. Probably I never shall." "You're talking to one this minute! When I'm with you, I always feel as if I were blind, and you could see."
There she and I could be safely left for a few days, while Brian and Father Beckett were at the front. As for Julian O'Farrell and Dierdre, at first it appeared as if the little lady had left them out of her calculations. But I might have known knowing her that she wouldn't do that for long.
As Dierdre led Brian in, the lady at the desk glanced up at the newcomers, and the officer in the big chair turned his head. The woman was young and very remarkable looking, with the pearl-pale skin of a true Parisian, large dark eyes under clearly sketched black brows, and masses of prematurely white hair.
If I hadn't fallen in love with you at first sight, and sacrificed myself and Dierdre for your good, wouldn't my sister have been in your place now, and you and your brother Lord knows where in prison as impostors, perhaps?" "According to you, my place isn't a very enviable one at present," I said. "But I'd rather be in prison for life than married to you. What a vision what a couple!"
It might be for his happiness, if " "I don't think Brian would marry Dierdre or any girl, unless his sight came back," I said. "He's often told me he wouldn't marry." "Was that before he went to Paris with the O'Farrells? Things have been rather different since then and a good deal different since the night we met Jack Curtis with Sirius." "I know," I admitted.
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