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'Though, you see love, added the latter lady, 'it would have been nicer for his people they've never spoken to him since if she had been making her living otherwise in Cairo. 'As a barmaid, for instance, said Madeline, sarcastically. 'As a barmaid, for instance, repeated Mrs. Gammidge, calmly. 'But Simla isn't related to him Simla doesn't care! Mrs. Mickie exclaimed.
Gammidge responded, with her customary humour, that the Colonel had never, in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, been known to give her occasion. 'Well, declared Mrs. Mickie, 'if friendships UNSENTIMENTAL friendships between men and women are not understood in Simla, I'd like to be told what is understood.
Beyond, the hills dipped blue and bluer to the plains, and against them hung a single waving yellow laburnum, a note of imagination. Madeline Anderson was looking at it when Mrs. Mickie and Mrs. Gammidge came up with an affectionate observation upon the cut of her skirt, after which Mrs. Mickie harked back to what they had been talking about before.
Pure pretty platonics, I should call it. Mrs. Gammidge lifted her eyebrows. 'I dare say that is what they imagine it. Well, they're never in the same room for two minutes without being aware of it, and their absorption when they get in a corner I saw her keep the Viceroy waiting, the other night after dinner, while Colonel Innes finished a sentence. And then she was annoyed at the interruption.
The women tried to avoid each other without accenting it, exchanging light words only as occasion demanded, but they were not clever enough for Mrs. Gammidge and Mrs. Mickie, who went about saying that Mrs. Innes's treatment of Madeline Anderson was as ridiculous as it was inexplicable. 'Did you ever know her to be jealous of anybody before? demanded Mrs. Mickie, to which Mrs.
Gammidge, as Madeline slipped toward the door. 'Meant to be cross, did she? How silly of her! If she gives her little heart away like that often, people will begin to make remarks. 'The worst of that girl is, Mrs. Mickie continued, 'that you never can depend upon her.
They seldom speak of Simla, and when they do, if too reminiscent a spark appears in Mrs. Mickie's eye, Mrs. Gammidge changes the subject. Kitty Vesey still fills her dance cards at Viceregal functions, though people do not quote her as they used to, and subalterns imagine themselves vastly witty about her colour, which is unimpaired.
The other ladies did not exchange glances this time. Miss Anderson's change of tone was too marked for comment which she might have detected. 'Colonel Innes got the telegram this morning. She wired from Brindisi, Mrs. Gammidge said. 'Does he seem pleased? asked Mrs. Mickie, demurely. 'He said he was afraid she would find it very hot coming up here from Bombay.
Owen remarked; 'I shall write to both your husbands this very night, but as the group shifted and left her alone with Mrs. Gammidge, she said she didn't know whether Mrs. Vesey would be quite so chirpy three weeks hence. 'When Mrs. Innes comes out, she added in explanation. 'Oh, yes, Valentine Drake is quite her property. My own idea is that Kitty won't be in it.
She touched upon almost every feature, from Mrs. Mickie and Mrs. Gammidge, whose husbands were perspiring in the Plains, and nobody telling them anything, to the much larger number of ladies interested in the work of the Young Women's Christian Association; from the 'type' of the Military Secretary to the Viceroy to that of Ali Buksh, who sold raw turquoises in a little carved shop in the bazaar.
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