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"Rain," said the other, briefly. "It won't rain before evening," said Miss Drewitt, confidently; "uncle said so." "Perhaps we had better walk faster, though," urged Mr. Tredgold. Miss Drewitt slackened her pace deliberately. "There is no fear of its raining," she declared. "And uncle will not catch us up if we walk fast." A sudden glimpse into the immediate future was vouchsafed to Mr.
"I believe that I could have got over by myself after all," said Miss Drewitt, as she stood on the other side. "I suppose that you were in too much of a hurry the last time. My dress is ruined." She spoke calmly, but her face was clouded. From her manner during the rapid walk home Mr.
Fresh from a world of obedient satellites, and ships responding to the lightest touch of the helm, he was venturing with all the confidence of ignorance upon the most delicate of human undertakings. Miss Drewitt, eyeing him with perfect comprehension and some little severity, sat aghast at his hardihood. "He's very fond of going up there," said Captain Bowers, somewhat discomfited.
You know Stobell?" The captain nodded, and Mr. Chalk, pale with excitement, accepted his accustomed pipe from the hands of Miss Drewitt and sat nervously awaiting events. Mr. Tasker set out the whisky, and, Miss Drewitt avowing a fondness for smoke in other people, a comfortable haze soon filled the room. Mr. Tredgold, with a significant glance at Mr. Chalk, said that it reminded him of a sea-fog.
From drains to the shortcomings of the district council they progressed by natural and easy stages, and it was not until Miss Drewitt had withdrawn to the clearer atmosphere above that a sudden ominous silence ensued, which Mr. Chalk saw clearly he was expected to break.
On the fourth day the captain was out, and Miss Drewitt, after a casual peep from the kitchen window, shrugged her shoulders and returned to the sitting-room. "Mr. Tredgold must be very cold up there, miss," said Mr. Tasker, respectfully, as he brought in the tea. "He keeps slapping his chest and blowing on his fingers to keep 'imself warm."
"No; I'd sooner pay now and get it over," said the other, still fumbling in his pockets. "As Miss Drewitt says, people who make bets must be prepared to lose; I thought I had more than this." There was an embarrassing silence, during which Miss Drewitt, who had turned very red, felt strangely uncomfortable. She felt more uncomfortable still when Mr.
The captain said it was cheerful." "I have no doubt that my uncle's selection would have satisfied me," said Miss Drewitt, coldly. "The curtains he fancied were red, with small yellow tigers crouching all over them," pursued Mr. Tredgold. "The captain seemed fond of animals." "I think that you were rather venturesome," said the girl. "Suppose that I had not liked the things you selected?" Mr.
The absurdity of the situation became unbearable, and despite her indignation at the treatment she had received Miss Drewitt felt a strong inclination to laugh. She turned her head swiftly and looked out of window, and the next moment Edward Tredgold crossed and took the captain's empty chair. "Shall I call him down?" he asked, in a low voice.
"For me," added the other, hastily. His companion said that she supposed it was. She also reminded him that nothing was easy without practice. "And I ought not to find it difficult," complained Mr. Tredgold. "I have got plenty of sense hidden away somewhere." Miss Drewitt permitted herself a faint exclamation of surprise. "It was not an empty boast of yours just now, then," she said.
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