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"The moment we reached home Ethelbertha looked for Amenda, and I looked for my hat. Neither were to be found. "Nine o'clock struck, ten o'clock struck. At half-past ten, we went down and got our own supper, and had it in the kitchen. At a quarter-past eleven, Amenda returned. She walked into the kitchen without a word, hung my hat up behind the door, and commenced clearing away the supper things.
Often a little speech like this, hinting at hidden depths of indescribable emotion has touched Ethelbertha, but to-night she appeared strangely unsympathetic.
"Oh, because he mistook the back of the house for the front, or the front of the house for the back," I explained; "I forget which now. Says it's his smile that irritates her. She owns herself there's no real reason." "When will you be going down again?" Ethelbertha asked. "On Thursday next," I told her; "stove or no stove." She said she would come with me.
The monotony of life, she added, was a common experience; there she could sympathise with me. "You don't know I long," said Ethelbertha, "to get away occasionally, even from you; but I know it can never be, so I do not brood upon it." I had never heard Ethelbertha speak like this before; it astonished and grieved me beyond measure.
Why I should be leaving the shop with nobody in it about twice a week, and he'd have to go the round of all the barracks in London, looking for me. I shall save up and get myself into a lunatic asylum, that's what I shall do. "Ethelbertha began to grow quite troubled.
Ethelbertha ran down into the kitchen; it was empty! up into Amenda's bedroom; it was vacant! We called. There was no answer. "'That miserable girl has gone off again, said Ethelbertha. 'What a terrible misfortune it is for her. It's quite a disease. "Ethelbertha wanted me to go to Sandgate camp and inquire for her.
The result had been to bring down upon her suffering and reproach. It is not often that Ethelbertha loses her temper. When she does she makes use of the occasion to perform what one might describe as a mental spring-cleaning.
Can't have the roadway blocked up all the afternoon with this 'ere demonstration of the unloved. You'll have to put up with your ordinary young men for to-day. Pass along." In connection with this same barracks, our charwoman told Amenda, who told Ethelbertha, who told me a story, which I now told the boys.
"Oh, it must be lovely, living on a houseboat," said Ethelbertha, with a gasp of ecstasy; "it must be like living in a doll's house."
If you want to know, it is that sort of face that grows upon you. At first you do not notice how beautiful it is, but when you come to look into it " "And has she also formed a high opinion of Dick?" interrupted Ethelbertha. "She will be disappointed in him," I said, "if he does not work hard and stick to it. They will all be disappointed in him."
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