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Amherst made no allusion to what had passed, asked for no details, offered no reassurances behaved as if the whole episode had been effaced from his mind. And from Wyant there came no sound: he seemed to have disappeared from life as he had from their talk. Toward the end of the week Amherst announced that he must return to Hanaford; and Justine at once declared her intention of going with him.
The young man was evidently not indigenous: all the social units of Hanaford were intimately known to each other. He was a stranger, therefore, presumably drawn there by the hope of seeing Miss Brent. But if he knew that she was coming he must be intimately acquainted with her movements.... The thought came to Amherst as an unpleasant surprise.
"Amherst writes to remind me of my promise to take Cicely to Hanaford next week, for her birthday." "Well it was a promise, wasn't it?" she rejoined, running her eyes over the page. "A promise yes; but made before.... Read the note you'll see there's no reference to his wife. For all I know, she'll be there to receive us." "But that was a promise too."
We've been everywhere on the globe except at Hanaford this is her second visit here in three years!" He rose and took a rapid turn across the deserted verandah. "It's not because her health requires it it's to get me away from Westmore, to prevent things being done there that ought to be done!" he broke out vehemently, halting again before his mother. The aged pink faded from Mrs.
He's simply too busy to come and thank her!" "Too busy at Hanaford?" "So he says. Introducing the golden age at Westmore it's likely to be the age of copper at Lynbrook." Mrs. Ansell drew a meditative breath. "I was thinking of that. I understood that Bessy would have to retrench while the changes at Westmore were going on."
As he forced himself, now, to look down the suddenly illuminated past to the weeks which had elapsed between her visit to Mr. Langhope and her departure from Hanaford, he wondered not so much at her swiftness of resolve as at her firmness in carrying out her plan and he saw, with a blinding flash of insight, that it was in her love for him that she had found her strength.
Bessy wrote me you had been quite used up by a trying case after we saw you at Hanaford." Miss Brent smiled. "When a nurse is fit for work she calls a trying case a 'beautiful' one." "But meanwhile ?" Mrs. Ansell shone on her with elder-sisterly solicitude. "Meanwhile, why not stay on with Cicely above all, with Bessy? Surely she's a 'beautiful' case too." "Isn't she?" Justine laughingly agreed.
This was a great concession on Mr. Langhope's part, and Justine saw the pleasure in her husband's face. It was the first time that his father-in-law had suggested Cicely's going to Hanaford. "I'm afraid I can't break away just now, sir," Amherst said, "but it will be delightful for Justine if you'll give us Cicely while you're away."
"Perhaps; if " He paused, as though reluctant to lay himself open once more to the charge of uncharitableness; and suddenly she exclaimed, looking about her: "I didn't notice we had walked so far down Maplewood Avenue!" They had turned a few minutes previously into the wide thoroughfare crowning the high ground which is covered by the residential quarter of Hanaford.
The hours went on without his returning, and at length it occurred to her that he might have taken the night train to Hanaford. Her heart contracted at the thought: she remembered though every nerve shrank from the analogy his sudden flight at another crisis in his life, and she felt obscurely that if he escaped from her now she would never recover her hold on him.
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