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I'll trot him round to the Vicarage, and then to the Seigneurie, and then I'll bring him here and turn him over to you and Hennie Penny. He'll be as limp as a rag by that time, and as wax in your hands."
"All the children including Hennie and you and me the jolliest feast they've ever had in their lives, the day we are married." "Of course we will, and the doctor shall get in an extra supply of palliatives.
And there was no sign or hint of Jeremiah Pixley in her atmosphere nor of Charles Svendt. What could it possibly all mean? Miss Penny Hennie Penny! What a delightfully ludicrous name! And what a delightful creature she was! Miss Penny, unless he had been dreaming, had said they had come to get away from things and people!
We're stopping their fun," said Hennie Penny, and when he led her to a seat the rest of the room all clapped their enjoyment. Graeme and Margaret danced a round or two to endorse the festivities, but they were not in it with Pixley and Hennie Penny, and they soon dropped out and clapped heartily with the rest.
There wasn't a sign of her on the steps not a sign. "Will you stay in the car while I go and look?" But no she wouldn't do that. Good heavens, no! Hennie could stay. She couldn't bear sitting in a car. She'd wait on the steps. "But I scarcely like to leave you," I murmured. "I'd very much rather not leave you here." At that she threw back her coat; she turned and faced me; her lips parted.
And that was how Miss Hennie Penny became so very knowing in such matters, and also why she lived in a state of perpetual amazement at the change that had come over her friend. For Margaret, affianced to the man who had her whole heart, was a very different being from Margaret harassed and worried by Mr. Pixley and his schemes for her possession and possessions.
And now and again, when Charles Svendt looked at her, he said to himself, "By Jove, she's as good-looking a girl as I know, and as clever as they make 'em!" For there is no greater beautifier in the world than happiness, and Hennie Penny was completely and quite unusually happy.
Miss Penny's natural goodness of heart impelled her to the most delicate consideration towards Mrs. Pixley. Hennie Penny, you see, had come bravely through dire troubles of her own, and tribulation softens the heart as it does the ormer.
Pixley enjoying the wonders in fear and trembling, and breathing freely only when they were safely out in the open once more. And Graeme and Margaret watched the approximating of Hennie Penny and Charles with infinite delight. It needed only a full understanding between these two to complete their own great happiness.
"I am so awfully sorry," I murmured as the car started. "Oh, I don't mind," said she. "I don't want to look twenty-one. Who would if they were seventeen! It's" and she gave a faint shudder "the stupidity I loathe, and being stared at by old fat men. Beasts!" Hennie gave her a quick look and then peered out of the window.
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