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Apparently it was done, for he came out almost immediately, thrusting a small cardboard box into his pocket as he rejoined his friend. "Now we'd better take a cab up to Fenchurch Street," said Jauncy. "Can't keep those girls standing about on the platform." As they drove along, Tweddle observed, "I didn't understand that our party was to include the fair sect, James?" "Didn't you?
"I I hadn't time this morning," said the unregenerate Leander; "but I do occasionally cast an eye over it before I get up." Mrs. Collum groaned, and looked at her daughter reproachfully. "I see by the Weekly News," said Jauncy, "you've had a burglary in your neighbourhood." Leander let the carving-knife slip. "A burglary! What! in my neighbourhood? When?"
Indistinct bird forms were roosting in cages; but her umbrella had no effect upon them. Jauncy was waiting for them to come up, perhaps as a protection against his fiancée's reproaches. "In another hour," he said, with an implied apology, "you'll see how different this place looks. We we're come a little too early. Suppose we fill up the time by a nice little dinner at the Restorong eh, Ada?
Bella declined to talk, and lay back in her corner with closed eyes and an expression of undeserved suffering, whilst the unfortunate Jauncy sat silent and miserable opposite. Leander would have liked to be silent too, and think out his position; but Ada would not hear of this. Her jealous resentment had apparently vanished, and she was extremely lively and playful in her sallies.
Jauncy, with confused apologies to the company generally, hurried his betrothed off, in no very amiable mood, and showed his sense of her indiscretions by indulging in some very plain speaking on their homeward way. As the street door shut behind them, Leander gave a deep sigh of relief.
"We have," was all he could reply. "Why, how nice that is, to be sure!" exclaimed his aunt. "I might have thought of it, too, Mr. Jauncy, and you being such friends and all. And p'r'aps you know this lady, too Miss Collum as Leandy is keeping company along with?" Bella's expression changed to something blacker still.
"Miss Parkinson," she said, speaking very rapidly, "when I asked you to come here with my good friend and former lodger, I little thought that anything but friendship would come of it; and sorry I am that it has turned out otherwise. And my feelings to Mr. Jauncy are the same as ever; but this is your bonnet, Miss Parkinson, and your cloak.
Inside, a few of the lamps around the pillars were lighted, and the body of the floor was roped in as if for dancing; but the hall was empty, save for a barmaid, assisted by a sharp little girl, behind the long bar on one of its sides. Jauncy led his dejected little party up to this, and again put his inquiry with less hopefulness.
"You are, you know you are!" persisted Jauncy, who was naturally anxious to avoid the reduction of his party to so inconvenient a number as three. "And see here, Tweddle, you needn't say anything of your engagement unless you like. I give you my word I won't, not even to Bella, if you'll only come! As to Ada, she can take care of herself, unless I'm very much mistaken in her.
Could he drop them a warning hint? "Don't you like this Mr. Jauncy, Leander?" whispered Matilda, who had observed his ghastly expression. "I like him well enough," he returned, with an effort; "but I'd rather we had no third parties, I must say." Here Mr. Jauncy came in alone, Miss Tweddle having retired to assist the lady to take off her bonnet. Leander went to meet him.
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