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I haven't quite thought it out," says Tita. "What would you suggest, Margaret?" to Miss Knollys. "Or you, Tom?" to a tall young man who has followed in her quick little progress across the room. He is her cousin, Tom Hescott. He is so very much taller than she is, that she has to look up at him the top of her head coming barely to a level with his shoulder.
"I tell you what," says Tita; "let us have hide-and-seek!" "Oh, how lovely!" cries Mrs. Chichester, springing to her feet. "What a heavenly suggestion!" "Yes; two to hunt, and all the rest to hide in couples," says Tom Hescott. It has occurred to him that he would like to hunt with Tita, or else to hide with her; and it might be managed.
I believe she loves me. I believe," slowly, "she has a great capacity for loving." "Are you alluding to her capacity for loving Mr. Hescott?" "That is unworthy of you," says his cousin. She rises. "I have only a few moments and your wife is coming with me, and I would say one word to you before I go. She is young very young. She is a mere child."
And after all, is she had only known, he was merely going to accuse himself of having been over-foolish when he induced Tita to ask her to Oakdean on a visit. "As you will," says he listlessly. "I was merely thinking of " "I know I know. Of course she would make me out the worst in the world, and I have reason to know that her cousin, Miss Hescott, told you stories about me. There was a night when
"Why, what did you think I was looking for?" "I really hardly know;" she smiles, and then says quietly, "Why, amusement, of course." At this moment Minnie Hescott, who detests being left out of anything, determines on boring a way into the tête-
To half my kingdom; but what?" demands Mr. Gower, in a whisper very low, as befits the occasion. "Tita is down there with Tom," says Miss Hescott, pointing to the far end of the long, dimly-lit gallery. "Do you want to see murder done?" "Not much," says Gower. "But how am I to prevent it?" "Don't you know what you must do?" says she energetically. "Those idiots downstairs have forsaken us.
Her barer and slender arms are now hanging straight before her, her fingers interlaced; she looks up at him. "With Tom?" "With Mr. Hescott." "I have known Tom all my life," defiantly. "I don't care about that. One may know people all one's life, and yet have very unpleasant things said about one."
"Well, your partner for this dance, whoever he is, doesn't seem to be in a hurry to claim you," says Rylton, making his rude speech very suavely. "You may as well give it to me." At this moment Hescott, looking rather out of breath, comes up to them, pushing the curtain near him aside. "What a place to hide yourself!" says he to Tita. "I have been hunting for you everywhere."
Tita is whispering to Hescott something very secret, undoubtedly. Her small face is upturned to his, and very earnest. His face. Rylton never forgets his face! Tita is speaking she is smiling she leans toward her companion; her voice is full of a delicious confidence. "Well, remember it is a secret a secret between us." Rylton draws back as if stabbed.
"And I must say," with a little flaming glance at him, "that it would have been in much better taste if you if you had pretended to see that I was not crying." Hescott does not hear, or takes no notice of this little bombshell. "Has your husband been unkind to you?" asks he sharply, most unpardonably. Tita looks at him for a second as if he had struck her, and then waves him aside imperiously.
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