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It seemed to him as he watched her that her first emotion was a thankfulness as deep as a prayer. He saw that she could not speak. Then she came up to him holding out both her hands. "Never was any one so welcome to me as you with your words this morning," she said. "I have not spoiled your life and Katie's." "And you are free," he said again. "Yes," she repeated, "I am free."
Where he sat, the shadows were too deep for them to see him. Before he could escape, they paused for a few moments near the outer branches of the great birch, where the lavish moon beamed clear as noonday. Their faces were distinctly revealed. Zotique's bore an intensely eager look, while Katie's was strangely agitated. They were talking earnestly.
Ann's head was bent over the book in a sort of stern frenzy. Ann, not even having waited to disrobe, was attacking Florence as the good old city had never been attacked before. She seemed to get the significance of Katie's laugh, however, for it was as to a confederate she whispered: "I'll get caught!" "Trust me," said Kate, and laughed from a new angle.
One disapproved of things which offended one, and in this instance the results of the things one knew one should disapprove were so far from offensive that one let it go at smiling knowingly, mildly disapproving of one's self for not disapproving. Ann had not responded enthusiastically to Katie's drawing of Major Darrett.
If she had resorted to temporary prostitution to hold the society together he would have admired her. But, instead, she weakly sought, like any merely conservative woman, the shelter of Katie's roof.
They reached the summit of the cliff in safety, and Lady Vincent breathed freely again and old Katie's prayers changed to thanksgivings. They crossed the drawbridge over the ancient moat and entered the castle gate. The light above it revealed the ghastly, iron-toothed portcullis, that looked ready to fall and impale any audacious passenger under its impending fangs.
I remember that the women shook their heads and looked gloomy when it came to be known that Katie's mother was likely to have a baby in the spring. She had been very ill before, and after this long interval and all the trouble things were not likely to go easier with her.
She was thankful that the dinner itself had drawn to a close. Later, on the porch, Caroline Osborne asked for Ann. Zelda and Major Darrett and Harry Prescott were in the group at the time. "You mean she is not coming back?" she pursued in response to Katie's statement that Ann had been called away. "I don't know," said Katie. "I'm afraid not." "Who is she, Katie?" Zelda asked. "No one you know."
"Now I will tell you what I did. Holding him in my arms, my face buried in his fur I made up my mind. The family would be away for at least an hour. I would give him the happiest hour I knew how to give him. One hour it was all I had the power to give him. Then because I loved him so much I would end his life." Katie's face whitened. "I carried out the plan," Ann went on.
It was arranged, he said, that they were to be married in August. On the whole, the journey to Torquay was considered to have been successful. Katie's health had been the only object in going there, and the main consideration while they remained. She returned, if not well, at any rate not worse.
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