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The other day she actually drove to the Hammonds' in a buggy with an unknown lawyer from Ripton. But I told you about it. Tell your gardener and the people that do your haying, dear, and your chicken woman. My chicken woman is most apathetic, but do you wonder, with the life they lead?" Mr. Humphrey Crewe might have had, with King Charles, the watchword "Thorough."
The Hammonds and Wainwrights had met in the spring during commencement week festivities and had much in common this morning as they came together in the Winchester terminal. Ted and Jack were at breakfast when word was brought to them of the presence of their parents in the president's reception room. It was a joyful little reunion.
"No more questions now before dinner," said Clara; and she took my hand as an affectionate child would, and led me out of the room and down stairs into the forecourt of the Museum, leaving the two Hammonds to follow as they pleased. We went into the market-place which I had been in before, a thinnish stream of elegantly dressed people going in along with us.
"It's awfully good of you, Humphrey," she answered, "but the Hammonds are on the road to Ripton, and I am going to ask Mr. Vane to drive me down there behind that adorable horse of his." This announcement produced a varied effect upon those who heard it, although all experienced surprise. Mrs.
Kara's expression made no other answer necessary. A few moments after the Hammonds had said farewell and were gone. An instant it appeared as if Lucy wished to break away and speak to Kara. The other girl never glanced toward her, or seemed conscious of her presence after her first display of affection, so apparently Lucy lost the desire or the courage.
"She thought it her duty to tell father the time you drove me to the Hammonds'. She said I asked you to do it." "What did he say?" Austen inquired, looking straight ahead of him. "He didn't say much," she answered. "Father never does. I think he knows that I am to be trusted." "Even with me?" he asked quizzically, but with a deeper significance.
And presently they came to a wire fence overgrown with Virginia creeper, which divided the shaded road from a wide lawn. "Here we are at the Hammonds', and thank you," she said. Any reply he might have made was forestalled.
And presently they came to a wire fence overgrown with Virginia creeper, which divided the shaded road from a wide lawn. "Here we are at the Hammonds', and thank you," she said. Any reply he might have made was forestalled.
Since the afternoon he had driven Victoria to the Hammonds' he had had daily debates with an imaginary man in his own likeness who, to the detriment of his reading of law, sat across his table and argued with him.
The insistent and intolerant horn of an automobile, followed now by the scream of the gears, broke the stillness of the country-side, and a familiar voice cried out "Do you want the whole road?" Austen turned into the Hammonds' drive as the bulldog nose of a motor forged ahead, and Mr. Crewe swung in the driver's seat. "Hello, Victoria," he shouted, "you people ought to have ear-trumpets."
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