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Miss Fisher and Nick Walcot got into one, Captain Rowley and Doady Donne occupied the other. "How tiresome the sun is, let me put up your parasol?" said our friend Rowley, with evident anxiety to screen her; but Doady begged he wouldn't trouble. "I don't mind the sun a bit," she said. "And I'm not in the least afraid of any one seeing me, since you've married you've grown so very respectable."
"Oh, it's about the same to me," laughed the lady, and then tilting herself back in her chair so that her voice might reach the further room more easily, she called, "Doady I say, come in here there's a surprise for you." And in answer to the summons a young lady appeared, who threw herself into a dramatic attitude exclaiming, "What! Captain Dacres? Well I never!
I was standing alone before the fire, when Dora came stealing softly in, to give me that usual precious little kiss before I went. 'Don't you think, if I had had her for a friend a long time ago, Doady, said Dora, her bright eyes shining very brightly, and her little right hand idly busying itself with one of the buttons of my coat, 'I might have been more clever perhaps?
'Oh, my dear, you never deserved it, and I loved you far too well to say a reproachful word to you, in earnest it was all the merit I had, except being pretty or you thought me so. Is it lonely, down-stairs, Doady? 'Very! Very! 'Don't cry! Is my chair there? 'In its old place. 'Oh, how my poor boy cries! Hush, hush! Now, make me one promise. I want to speak to Agnes.
'Oh, Doady, after more years, you never could have loved your child-wife better than you do; and, after more years, she would so have tried and disappointed you, that you might not have been able to love her half so well! I know I was too young and foolish. It is much better as it is! Agnes is downstairs, when I go into the parlour; and I give her the message.
'Not that I am vain of it, now, you mocking boy, she says, when I smile; 'but because you used to say you thought it so beautiful; and because, when I first began to think about you, I used to peep in the glass, and wonder whether you would like very much to have a lock of it. Oh what a foolish fellow you were, Doady, when I gave you one!
'The truth is, Dora, my life, I said; 'I have been trying to be wise. 'And to make me wise too, said Dora, timidly. 'Haven't you, Doady? I nodded assent to the pretty inquiry of the raised eyebrows, and kissed the parted lips. 'It's of not a bit of use, said Dora, shaking her head, until the ear-rings rang again.
For, was he not the "Daisy" of Steerforth, the "Doady" of Dora, the "Trotwood" of Aunt Betsy, and the "Mas'r Davy" of the Yarmouth boatmen, just as surely as he was the "Mr. Copper-full" of Mrs. Crupp, the "Master Copperfield" of Uriah Heep, and the "Dear Copperfield" of Mr. Wilkins Micawber?
Under other circumstances he might have been more struck with the little embarrassment which she could not perfectly control, but at the moment he was not quite himself either. That impudent Doady Donne had played a shameful hoax on him, had actually had the audacity to declare that she had seen his wife Nina, Mrs. Dacres in Teddy Vere's hansom!
"You've accounted for every one but ourselves, Doady," she said; "it must have been one of us, or both. That is it; he likes us both so much, and was so afraid of proposing to the wrong one, that he dashed off in a motor-car to consider the matter in solitude." Dora held her blouse up to the light. "I believe I'm making it worse," she said, pensively regarding the spot.
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