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Updated: June 14, 2025
Destiny averted its head and drew back, and the relatives passed on their ways without speaking. James observed with interest a girl of twenty by Susan's side her daughter. This daughter of Susan's was now sharing the park bench with him. Hence the hidden drama of their meeting, of his speech, of her reply. "And what's your name, lass?" "Helen." "Helen what?" "Helen, great-stepuncle," said she.
She had called him great-stepuncle, thus conferring on him a sort of part-proprietorship in her; and he was proud of her. The captain of the bowling-club came along, and James Ollerenshaw gave him just such a casual nod as he might have given to a person of no account. The nod seemed to say: "Match this, if you can. It's mine, and there's nothing in the town to beat it. Mrs.
It is true that in their exact correctness they might have been mistaken for toast-masters, or, with the slight addition of silver neck-chains, for high officials in a costly restaurant. But great-stepuncle James could never have been mistaken for anything but a chip of the early nineteenth century flicked by the hammer of Fate into the twentieth.
James had asked, carefully imitating Helen's nonchalance. "Yes," she had said. "I gather you are not passionately fond of kidneys, great-stepuncle?" she had asked. "I was once. What art going to do, lass?" "I'm going to get our tea," she had said.
It 'ud be cheap at a hundred, lass; unless there's a whole crowd on ye as can teach everything. Can you sew?" "Sew!" she exclaimed. "I've given lessons in sewing for years. And cookery. And mathematics. I used to give evening lessons in mathematics at Longshaw secondary school." Great-stepuncle James gazed at her.
A few minutes earlier the sight of great-stepuncle James had filled Helen with sadness, and he had not suspected it. Now her laugh filled James with sadness, and she did not suspect it.
And she added, seriously: "You can't be expected to cook for yourself, can you? And as for getting a new one " He noticed with satisfaction that she had taken to calling him simply uncle, instead of great-stepuncle. "A new 'un!" he muttered, grimly, and sighed in despair. "I shall stay and look after your supper," she said, brightly. "Yes, and what about to-morrow?" He grew gloomier.
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