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"Very well, then," said Imogene, with the air of summing up; "then the only question is whether we shall make it known or not to other people." This point seemed to give Mrs. Bowen greater pause than any. She was a long time silent, and Colville saw that Imogene was beginning to chafe at her indecision.
Imogene smiled vaguely, as if the talk pleased her, even when it mocked the fancies and whims which, after so many generations that have indulged them, she was finding so fresh and new in her turn. "Don't you like to walk by the side of a river?" she asked, increasing her eager pace a little. "I feel as if it were bearing me along." "I feel as if I were carrying it," said Colville.
Late on a certain afternoon Ruth Gardner and Imogene Martin stood waiting by a gray runabout at the edge of the camp. A storm was sweeping up the Ventisquero Range from the south, one of the autumn storms that marked the change of seasons, enveloping, as it advanced, the gray peaks one after another in its fog and trailing over the mesa gauzy brown streamers of rain.
Lady Roehampton, duly apprised of affairs by her brother, had called on Lord and Lady Beaumaris, and had invited them to her house. It was the first appearance of Imogene in general society, and it was successful.
When they were gone Lester said to Jennie, "Imogene has changed a good deal." He made no other comment. Mrs. Kane was on the Atlantic three days out from New York the afternoon Lester died. He had been meditating whether anything more could be done for Jennie, but he could not make up his mind about it. Certainly it was useless to leave her more money. She did not want it.
"Oh, quite well," said Imogene. "I don't see Mrs. Bowen," he ventured further. "No," answered the girl, still very lifelessly; "I came with Mrs. Fleming." She looked about the room as if not to look at him. He now perceived a distinct intention to snub him. He smiled. "Have you seen the pictures? There are two or three really lovely ones." "Mrs.
To continue to be secretary and treasurer, it was necessary that he should own at least one share of the company's stock. Would Robert give him any? Would Amy, Louise, or Imogene? Would they sell him any? Would the other members of the family care to do anything which would infringe on Robert's prerogatives under the will?
"But I must confess that I agreed with her, though I would have preferred to postpone it till we heard from your family." He was thoughtfully silent a moment; then he said, "But if their decision is to have no weight with us, I think he ought to be told at once." "Do you think that I am flirting with him?" "Imogene!" exclaimed Colville reproachfully.
Bowen ran from it by another door, and shut herself into her own room. When she returned to the salotto, Imogene and Effie were just coming in. The child went to lay aside her hat and sacque; the girl, after a glance at Mrs. Bowen's face, lingered inquiringly. "Mr. Colville came here with your letter, Imogene." "Yes," said Imogene faintly. "Do you think I oughtn't to have written it?"
"I wish he could have avoided the occasion for his bravado," said Mrs. Bowen. "I think I was a little to blame, perhaps," said the girl. "I beckoned him to come and take the vacant place." "I don't see that that was an excuse," returned Mrs. Bowen primly. Imogene seemed insensible to the tone, as it concerned herself; it only apparently reminded her of something. "Guess what Mr.
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