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She knew exactly the spur to apply to Toni's flagging mood, and she smiled to herself when she heard Toni's reply. "Do you think I would hesitate to give up Greenriver and all the rest to make my husband happy?" And looking at her Eva knew she would not. Mistaken, Toni might often be foolish, self-willed, a little intolerant of advice; but she would never be selfish.
At first Miss Loder had accepted the fact of her employer's marriage as one accepts any fixed tradition; and the subject rarely entered her thoughts during working hours. Gradually she began to feel a faint curiosity as to what manner of woman Owen Rose's wife might be; and she welcomed her summons to Greenriver on the ground that now she would be able to solve the problem for herself.
He had been tortured with terrible neuralgic headaches all through the winter; but though the doctor urged him to try the effect of a sojourn abroad, nothing would induce him to leave Greenriver.
Greenriver that's the house is really charmingly situated, with big grounds at the back, and the river just beneath the house." "You lived there as a youngster?" "Yes. When my father died my mother couldn't bear to live there, and we let the place. After her death I could have gone back, but somehow I didn't want to. It was only when I met Vivian "
By now Toni had a good many acquaintances in the neighbourhood, and was pleased to see Mrs. Anstey smiling at her as she inquired the price of a magnificent bunch of sweet-peas which had come from the gardens of Greenriver.
But in another minute they were on a stretch of white road bordered by a high wall, behind which tall trees stood like sentinels; and Toni caught her breath as Owen said, in a voice which he tried, vainly, to keep steady: "See, there's Greenriver my home beyond the trees."
Rather she was trying to realize that she was the mistress of this beautiful place, that Greenriver, with its grounds, its flowers, its lofty rooms, was to be her home; and to the girl who had lived in Winter Road, Brixton, Greenriver was indeed a revelation. They had been home a week; and so far Owen had not left her for more than a few hours, on the occasion of a business visit to London.
But if you can possibly make these things do for a bit, I'll send a boy on a bicycle down to your place and tell them to put together some clothes for you." "Oh, will you?" Toni was beginning to find her soaked garments rather unpleasantly chilly. "I live at Greenriver oh, you know? and if you tell the housekeeper to send me everything, she'll know what I want." "Very well."
She does her work well, and doesn't interfere with you in the least." "Interfere with me no, perhaps not," said Toni, her breast heaving stormily, her cheeks very red. "She laughs at me, though, which is worse sneers oh, I know she thinks I'm a little fool, and so I am; but I am at least your wife the mistress of Greenriver, and she might remember that and treat me with a little more respect."
She had been so intent upon Owen's welfare, that save for a few moments in the garden at Greenriver her own had been forgotten; and although she had accepted Leonard Dowson's proposal with an almost startling readiness, she had done so in the manner of one who, drowning, clutches at a straw.
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