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Jimmy'd know I couldn't keep a silly promise like that, and if I wouldn't take her she'd simply go by herself. I tried to explain to her very gently that her going at all was out of the question. She would do no good to anybody by going; she would annoy Jimmy most frightfully; untrained women were not wanted at the front. Untrained? She had got her certificate three days ago.
In return, she kissed me on both cheeks, and the old man smoothed my hair, heavily. "Why yes, that's settled then, you belong to us," he said. "It's just as if Jimmy'd left you to us in his will. In his last letter the boy told his mother and me that when we met we'd get a pleasant surprise. We silly old folks! never thought of a love story.
The delay at sea had cost a day, and that seemed like hard lines, as we should reach Paris with no more than time to wish the lad God-speed. But in the train, when we came to look at the date, we saw that we'd miscalculated. Unless Jimmy'd been able to get extra leave we'd miss him altogether. His mother said that would be too bad to be true. We hoped and prayed to find him at the Ritz.
We supposed Jim was booked for promotion, or a new job with some sort of honour attached to it. And yet we might have guessed, if we'd had our wits about us, for we did know that Jimmy'd fallen in love at first sight with a girl in France, before the war broke out." "He told you that!" I almost gasped. Then he had fallen in love, and hadn't gone away forgetting, as I'd thought!
I could see just how Jimmy'd color up an' choke when he read it, specially where she owned up how she'd been gettin' purty near discouraged 'cause they didn't hear much from him, an' how she'd rather die than have her Jimmy fail. "Well, they sent off the letters, an' by an' by come the answer.
Sometimes I think she'd worked that too; she knew the firm, and she wasn't Mrs. She'd got her car Jimmy'd ordered it for Amershott and forgotten about it and her chauffeur, and I could go in it with her if I liked. It was a better car than the one I'd had in Belgium before or, she said significantly, than the one I was going to take out with me. It was true that I didn't know anything about cars.
What with the aid of John, the China boy, and Willy, the deck-hand, we also got supplies aboard her, I scarce knew what, except that there seemed abundance. And then we stood waiting for what might happen, helpless in the hands of the offended elements, and silent all. I held Jean's hand in my own. He was loyal to his mate, even now. "Jimmy'd be here," he said.
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