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Updated: June 1, 2025
I suppose supper is ready. I'll come down." They went down together, to find Violet thrumming her mandolin in the twilight for the benefit of Max who was stretched at full length on the drawing-room sofa. The three boys were scudding about the garden like puppies. As Olga and Nick entered, Violet looked up from her instrument. "I'm wondering if Sir Kersley would like to adopt me as well as Max.
Beyond the bare fact of his brief engagement and its rupture, Max had confided in him not at all. He had left him to infer that she had been caught by a nearer attraction in his absence an inference which her present engagement to his brother had seemed to confirm. And Sir Kersley had been far too considerate to probe for further enlightenment.
"Who said?" questioned Olga. "Sir Kersley Whitton and Max. Max sent for him, you know." "Oh, did he? Yes, I remember now. I saw him just for a moment." Again her brow contracted. "Oh, I wish I could remember everything clearly, Nick!" she said. "Never mind, my chicken! Don't try too hard!" Cheery and reassuring came Nick's response. "Don't you think you have thought enough for one day?
"There isn't," said Max. "He is coming over to congratulate us to-morrow." "Max!" She opened her eyes wide and lifted her head. "Max, you don't mean " "Yes, I do," said Max imperturbably. "Why do you suppose I came tearing down here to-night, leaving Kersley to kill all my patients as well as his own?" "Not surely to see me?" said Olga, wonderingly. He laughed grimly. "No. It was to see Noel.
What did your friend Sir Kersley think?" Max lifted one eyebrow. "What did he say to you about it?" Nick struck a match for his cigarette with considerable dexterity. "About Violet practically nothing. About her mother a good deal." "I wonder why." Max spoke somewhat curtly. Nick lighted his cigarette with a whimsical expression.
Nick, moreover, who had patiently chaperoned her for the past five weeks, was wanting to rejoin his wife who had returned to Redlands soon after Noel's operation. And Noel himself, though still undergoing treatment at his brother's hands, had so far recovered as to be able to leave the home and take up his abode temporarily with Sir Kersley Whitton and Max.
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