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It's lovely here, but you must get me home, Enid." They found it dark inside. Claude took Enid down the ladder and out to her car, and then went back for Gladys. She was sitting on the floor at the top of the ladder. Giving her his hand he helped her to rise. "So you like my little house," he said gratefully. "Yes. Oh, yes!" Her voice was full of feeling, but she did not exert herself to say more.
Directly in front of A was the Princess of Wales, "in ruby velvet, with six rows of pearls encircling her throat, and two more strings falling quite low;" and next her, in front of me, the startling presence of Lady de Grey, formerly Lady Lonsdale, and before that Gladys Herbert. On the other side of the Princess sat the Grand Duke Michael of Russia.
Gladys was in her usual place, and looked round at me with a smile as I entered. When the service was over, I went to the Marshalls', accompanied by Jill, who announced her intention of not letting me out of her sight, for I had to preside over the children's Christmas dinner, and to look after my patient.
Gladys began removing the dishes from the table, Aunt Hannah assisting now and then listlessly, as if her mind was far away; and after two or three vain efforts Seth managed to ask: "How much will I have to pay for breakfast an' sleepin' in the barn?" "Why, bless your heart, my boy, I wouldn't think of chargin' anything for that," the little woman said, almost sharply.
I am informed that, while in the employ of this family, you accepted a retainer from another party to investigate the death of Arnold Rivers." "That's correct," Rand informed him. Then he turned to Gladys. "Just for the record, Mrs. Fleming, do you recall any stipulation to the effect that the business of handling this pistol-collection should have the exclusive attention of my agency?
Was it the firelight, or did the colour heighten rapidly in Clara's cheek? 'Such nonsense you talk, Mina, she said hastily. 'It isn't nonsense at all. Have we never exhibited the photograph of our Adonis, Gladys? 'I don't think so, answered Gladys, with a smile. 'Suppose you let me see it now? 'Of course. That was an unpardonable oversight, which his lordship would never forgive.
"I might strike something," Seth said reflectively. "At any rate, Snip an' I'll have to keep movin'." "Then you have no idea where you're going?" And Aunt Hannah appeared to be distressed in mind. "I wish I did," Seth replied with a sigh, and Gladys said quickly: "You can't keep walkin' 'round all the time, for what will you do when it rains?"
Gladys could see the coldly amused glances some of the girls were bestowing on her, and the indifference with which she was being treated by the boys. Why did she come dressed in such a fashion? Gladys felt a little indignant at her.
He led the way, and soon Gladys found herself in a large, low-ceiled room, quite cheerless, and poorly furnished like a kitchen, though a bed stood in one corner. The fireplace was very old and quaint, having a little grate set quite unattached into the open space, leaving room enough for a stool on either side. It was, however, choked with dead ashes, and presented a melancholy spectacle.
But Gladys Todd was wise, with that innate wisdom of her sex in matters of appearance when appearance is to be considered, and we held in silence, loftily on our cloud. And looking back on that evening, my recollection is of misty, nebulous things; not of a passing flow of incident, but of a welling up of new thoughts as I sat awkwardly pulling at my fingers and caressing my collar.
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