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We were shown the letter, and thought it terribly brief and cold; but my mother said it would be weak to offer forgiveness that was not sought, and my father was specially exasperated at the absence of all contrition as to the treatment of Ellen. All Griff had vouchsafed on that head was the rupture had been the Fordyces' doing; he was not bound.
"Anyway," she finished, "we shall be fearfully quiet and alone here, and your being here would simply save the day for Nina!" "Oh, I really couldn't stay over New Year's," Mrs. Tabor, looking slightly discomfited, said slowly. "You see, the Fordyces " "Nina may keep you," Harriet said, lightly.
It was well that my father had ruled that our letters should not be family property. Here were all the others discussing a proposed tour in the north of Devon, to be taken conjointly with the Fordyces, as soon as Griff should come home. My mother said it would do me good; she saw I was flagging, but she little guessed at the continual torment of anxiety, and my wonder at the warning about Griff.
Her experience with Liz Hepburn had disheartened her inexpressibly, and for the time being she felt inclined to let her scheme for the welfare of the working girls fall into abeyance. In May she left Bourhill in possession of Miss Peck and the regretful Teen, and departed to London, apparently with relief, in company with the Fordyces.
The poor lady's intentions, which to our Protestant minds appeared rather shocking than otherwise, had been frustrated at the break up of such establishments, when the Chantry, and the estate that maintained its clerks and bedesmen, was granted to Sir Harry Power, from whom, through two heiresses, it had come to the Fordyces, the last of whom, by name Margaret, had died childless, leaving the estate to her stepson, Philip Winslow, our ancestor.
'Besides this, Fordyces and Winslows could never be friends, since the Fordyces had taken on themselves to dispute the will, and say it had been improperly obtained. 'What will? 'Mrs. Winslow's Margaret Fordyce that was. She was the heiress, and had every right to dispose of her property. 'But that was more than a hundred years ago!
He declared with all his heart that immediate marriage would be the best thing for both, and pleaded earnestly for it; but my father could not have arranged for it even if the Fordyces would have consented, and there were matters of business, as well as other reasons, which made it inexpedient for them to revoke their decision that the wedding should not take place before Ellen was of age and Griffith called to the bar.
We dined with the Fordyces at their hotel, and sat in the twilight with the windows open, and we made Anne and Clarence sing, as both could do without notes, but he would not undertake to remember anything with an atom of sentiment in it, and when Anne did sing, 'Auld lang syne, with all her heart, he went and got into a dark corner, and barely said, 'Thank you.
Needless to say, the new inmate of the lawyer's household had been freely discussed by the Pollokshields Fordyces, and it was in reality curiosity to see her which had brought them to Bellairs Crescent that afternoon. 'I should just say it was a crowd, added George, giving his immaculate moustache a pull. 'I was sorry for Stuart, poor beggar.
"Mary Putnam told us that you were just resting and looking about," she said, innocently, "and Dick generous that he is! couldn't feel comfortably about it, I suppose! Well, I wanted to see Nina ?" Harriet explained Nina's absence, and Mrs. Tabor pouted. "I'd have stopped there," she said. "I'm on my way to the Fordyces'; they have a regular New Year's party, you know "
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