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Fenimer crossly, "but I want to go to the club, and how can I, unless she goes back? You can't think only of yourself, my dear fellow." Riatt admitted that this was true and he and Christine went back to the drawing-room. Very soon afterwards, he gave Dorothy a keen prolonged look, which she did not misunderstand. She got up at once and said good night.
"Let us say of an unknown tribe." She leant back in her chair and stretched her arms over her head. "Well, let me see," she said. "I wake up about nine or a little after if I haven't been up all night, and I ring for my maid. And about eleven " "Don't skip, please. You ring for your maid. What does she do for you?" Imagine any one's not knowing! Miss Fenimer marveled.
Perhaps the young poet had not been so wrong in attaching the name of Helen to Miss Fenimer, for she sat now as calmly interested in the conflict developing before her, as Helen when she sat on the walls of Troy and designated the Greek heroes for the amusement of her newer friends. "May I ask, Mr. Riatt, what rights in the matter you consider that you have?" Linburne pursued.
Fenimer went on easily, "come, you know, a man really can't go off in the casual way you did and expect to find everything just as he likes when he comes back. I have a word to say to you myself. Shall we walk as far as the corner together?" To receive his dismissal from Mr. Fenimer was something that Riatt had never contemplated.
Even a suggestion of adverse criticism was unpleasant to Miss Fenimer. She was not accustomed to it; and she answered with some sharpness: "Yes, but the road is real, whereas I understand your embarrassment through the attentions of ladies is purely fictitious." Riatt wondered how fictitious, but he turned the cutter about in obedience to her commands.
Fenimer could not on the instant think of an answer, and Riatt decided to go upstairs unannounced. As he opened the drawing-room door he heard Christine's voice saying: "Thank you, I shall please myself, Lee, even without your kind permission."
Thoroughly idle people and there is not much question that Miss Fenimer was idle learn a variety of methods for keeping other people at work, and probably the most effective of these is flattery. Christine may have been ignorant of the feminine arts of cooking and fire-making; but of the super-feminine art of flattery she was a thorough mistress.
He smiled at the seriousness of her tone. "Ah," said she, "the self-confidence which your smile betrays is one of the weaknesses by which nature has delivered your sex into the hands of mine. I would explain it to you at length, but the time is too short. The great offensive may begin at any moment. The Usshers have made up their minds that you are to marry Christine Fenimer.
Hickson stopped at this, and looked at his companion with such wistful uncertainty, that it seemed perfectly natural for Riatt, answering that look, to say: "You may speak frankly to me, you know." Ned took a long breath. "I believe that I may," he said. "I hope so, anyhow. I haven't had any one I could be frank with. Between ourselves, Fenimer is no good at all." "What, my future father-in-law?"
Riatt heard him go into the little drawing-room overhead, and then there was a long pause. Once he thought he heard a voice raised in anger. As may be imagined his own anger was not appeased by this reception. While he was waiting, the door of a room next the front-door opened and Mr. Fenimer came out.
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