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Updated: May 3, 2025
It began the evening of the dragon-skin frock, and it lasted, oh about a month. And you never noticed it, poor child. And now you are miserable about him. I am so sorry." There was such convincing sincerity in her every tone that Brigit could not even pretend to be angry. "You must think me very silly," she murmured. But the little woman shook her head, "Non, non, it is not silly to love.
Since the evening of the dragon-skin frock Brigit had done nothing to charm Joyselle; he saw her through his own eyes now, and she, knowing that the game was in her own hands, could afford to wait; when the day came when she wanted to hurt him or to further gratify her own love, she could make him love her almost in a moment.
Even after the evening of the dragon-skin frock he had not known the real explanation of his amazement on her entrance, and had, she knew, merely advanced in his perilous path to the point of realising that she was, although his future daughter, an amazingly desirable woman. So far she had read him correctly.
"Oh! a few girls and boys make just about as much confusion as a good many," observed Polly. "Jasper, wouldn't you like to see Joel's eyes when Aunt Whitney leads him into the private box?" she allowed herself time to exclaim. "Yes," laughed Jasper, pulling out his watch from beneath his dragon-skin; "well, we have only five minutes more, Polly. We must have the curtain up sharp."
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