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Mrs. Ingham-Baker laughed eagerly at herself, after the manner of persons who cannot afford to keep up a decent self-respect. "But I always rather think," she went on, with an apprehensive glance towards her daughter, "that a sword is out of place in a drawing-room, or or anywhere where there are carpets, you know."
Fitz and Luke obeyed her invitation without much enthusiasm. They were boyish enough to object to kissing on principle. They then shook hands awkwardly with Mrs. Ingham-Baker, and drifted together again with that vague physical attraction which seems to qualify twins for double harness on the road of life.
For all she knew or all she wanted to know it might refer to Agatha's self. "I am afraid I shall lose her, you know horribly afraid," whispered Mrs. Ingham-Baker, knowing the value of competition in all things. Fitz looked genuinely sympathetic, and glanced at Agatha again, wondering what disease had marked her for its own. Mrs. Ingham- Baker thought fit to explain indirectly, as was her wont.
Fitz turned round with his good-natured smile the smile that indicates a polite attention to an indifferent conversation and Mrs. Ingham-Baker was free to thrust in her awkward oar. She splashed in. "Oh, I am sure she will not let herself be snapped up to-night; will you, dear?" "That, no doubt, depends upon the snapper," put in Mrs. Harrington, looking perhaps by accident at Fitz.
In the one they are educated with a view of faring well in this world, in the other the teaching mostly bears upon matters connected with the next. In the last-mentioned class of establishment the young people get up early and have very little material food to eat. So Mrs. Ingham-Baker wisely sent her daughter to the worldly school.
Harrington more difficult to get on with than ever. In fact he, he! I almost feel inclined to advise you not to try. But I suppose you will not be much in London?" Fitz looked at her with clear, keen blue eyes. "I expect to be there some time," he answered. "I hope to stay with Mrs. Harrington." Mrs. Ingham-Baker glanced at Agatha, and returned somewhat hastily to her galantine of veal.
I do not think she was good, Fitz, but that was good in her quite good. People say that it sometimes saves men. It often saves women. I think it is better for a girl to have no mother at all than to have a foolish mother, much better, I am sure of it." "Women like Mrs. Ingham-Baker," said Fitz gruffly, "do more harm in the world than women who are merely bad.
And yet they were drifting surely and steadily towards each other, driven by the undercurrent of Fate, against which the strongest will may beat itself in vain. Let thine eyes look right on. "How handsome Fitz looks in his uniform!" Mrs. Ingham-Baker said, with that touch of nervous apprehension which usually affected all original remarks addressed by her to Mrs. Harrington. Mrs.
Agatha was reading the Globe, sitting upright and stiff, for she was wearing a new ball-dress. "I think," went on Mrs. Ingham-Baker volubly, "that I have never seen a naval uniform before in a room close at hand, you know. Of course, on board the Croonah the officers wore a sort of uniform, but they had not a sword." Agatha turned over her newspaper impatiently. Mrs.
"It would be very nice to feel really warm," she said. "But there is the horrid sea voyage." "I dare say you would enjoy that very much after the first two days," put in Mrs. Harrington. "Especially if we select a nice large boat one of those with two funnels?" put in Mrs. Ingham-Baker. "Now I wonder what boat we could go by?" "Luke's," suggested Mrs. Harrington, with cynical curtness.
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