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Updated: September 29, 2025
"It happened so suddenly. The Rajah drives so fiercely like a man possessed. And the car skidded on the hill. Netta Ermsted was in it, and she screamed, and I I was terrified because Tessa Tessa brave mite sprang in front of me. I don't know what she thought she could do. I think partly she was angry, and lost her head. And she meant to help to protect me somehow.
When Bernard, very firm and purposeful, walked down again after dinner that night, Ralston met him with a wry expression and put a crumpled note into his hand. "Mrs. Ermsted has apparently divined your benevolent intentions," he said. Bernard read in silence, with meeting brows. DEAR MARY: This is to wish you and all kind friends good-bye.
Ermsted stretched out her dainty feet in front of her and made a grimace. "When you call me Netta, I always know it is getting serious," she remarked. "I withdraw it all, my dear angel, with the utmost liberality. You shall see how generous I can be to my supplanter. But do like a good soul finish those tiresome tucks before you begin to be really cross with me!
He glanced about him. "Mrs. Ermsted isn't here, is she?" "No dear. I left her resting," his wife said. "This affair is very trying for her naturally." He assented somewhat grimly. "I wonder she stayed for it. Now Tessa on the other hand yearns for the murderer's head in a charger. That child is getting too Eastern in her ideas. It will be a good thing to get her Home." Mrs.
Ralston started at the abrupt surmise. She looked up for the first time. "Really, my dear! What an extraordinary thing to say!" Little Mrs. Ermsted jerked up her chin aggressively. "Why extraordinary, I wonder? Nothing could be more extraordinary than his death. Either he jumped over the precipice or she pushed him over when he wasn't looking. I wonder which." But at that Mrs.
Before departing, he looked round for Monck as was his custom, but finding that he and Captain Ermsted had also been drawn into the discussion with the Colonel, he left the mess alone. Back in The Green Bungalow he flung off his coat and threw himself down in his shirt-sleeves on the verandah to read his sister's letter. The light from the red-shaded lamp streamed across the pages.
She believed he watched her narrowly though he certainly had no appearance of doing so, and the suspicion made her nervous. There were a few Lady Harriet among the number who condemned Udalkhand from the outset as impossible, and departed for Bhulwana without attempting to spend even the beginning of the hot season there. Netta Ermsted also decided against it though Mrs.
Ermsted held her up to ridicule openly, and yet very strangely she did not seem to dislike the Adjutant's sharp-tongued little wife. She had been very good to her on more than one occasion, and the most appreciative remark that Mrs. Ermsted had ever found to make regarding her was that the poor thing was so fond of drudging for somebody that it was a real kindness to let her. Mrs.
She cast a barbed glance towards Stella as she spoke as Monck guided her to the least crowded corner of the ball-room. Stella's delicate face was flushed, but it was the exquisite flush of a blush-rose. Her eyes were of a starry brightness; she had the radiant look of one who has achieved her heart's desire. "What a vision of triumph!" commented Mrs. Ermsted.
So I undertook then and there that a 'rickshaw should be waiting for her at the gate at eight o'clock, and she should have a stodgy grown-up entertainment to follow. She was delighted with the idea, poor little soul. The Ralstons are going to the Club dance, and of course Mrs. Ermsted also, but Tommy is giving up the first half to come and amuse Cinderella. Mrs.
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