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He does take his position so strenuously; it's no good my reminding him that even the Queen is obliged to respect a Constitutional government. Bridget took a cigarette from a gold case with her initials in tiny precious stones across it, and handed the case to Mrs Gildea who shook her head. 'Still too old-fashioned to smoke!
'Tell me now, she exclaimed, 'Oh, Joan ... Won't your notes keep? Mrs Gildea had got up, a sheaf of pencils and a reporter's note book in her hand. 'Yes, for a few minutes. But I've just remembered something I've got to refer to in one of Mr Gibbs' letters. Don't mind me; I'll be back presently.
Anyway, McKeith made no references to the newspaper correspondent's rhapsodies when he paid Mrs Gildea a short visit two or three days before the landing of the new Governor. But his very reticence and something in his expression made Joan suspect that he was puzzled and excited, and would have been glad had she volunteered any information about Lady Tallant's companion.
Ah, that journey! What an experience! If she could have written it down as a new adventure of 'The Lady of Quality, how the great Gibbs would have jumped at her 'copy! Well, she had practically done so in her letters to Joan Gildea now back in her London flat. But the true inwardness of the adventure was a thing never to be put into words. No sign yet of the men.
But what can you do with a girl who throws herself at the heads of ineligibles, and when one trots out an unexceptionable PARTI and does one's best to bring them together, goes off at a tangent and lets the whole thing drop through. You know how it was with.... Lady Tallant enumerted names. Mrs Gildea acquiesced mournfully.
Romance Ideals something more LIFTING than beef and mutton and cutting a bigger dash than your neighbour.... See? He broke off with a laugh, and the wonderfully vivid light that came into his blue eyes made him look like an ardent youth. 'And you a democrat! jeered Mrs Gildea. 'You, a champion of the people's rights; you, an Imperialist in the broadest sense of the term!
Mrs Gildea had settled early to her morning's work in what she called the veranda-study of her cottage in Leichardt's Town. It was a primitive cottage of the old style, standing in a garden and built on the cliff the Emu Point side overlooking the broad Leichardt River.
Yet his closest intimates would scarcely have known him at this period. He was as a man bewitched, with intervals only of his ordinary commonsense. In these intervals the consciousness of glamour made him vaguely uneasy. Had Joan Gildea been there she would have seen all this and would have observed signs of over-strain in Bridget something faintly apprehensive yet obstinately determined.
'And now, Mrs Gildea, I'm quite at your service for any information you desire about the Big Bight country and the probability of a Japanese invasion so soon as our future Commonwealth comes to crucial loggerheads with the Eastern Powers on the question of a strictly White Australia.
'No, I can't do that; but as she's in London and we're over here, it's not much odds anyway. Well, have you found the right sheets? Give them to me if you have and then we can come to business. Colin McKeith had been gone some time and Mrs Gildea, primed with fresh ideas, had finished her article on the lines he suggested, before she again tackled Lady Bridget's love-affair.
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