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"It was not caprice," Mrs. Kilroy assured her. "I liked you very much the first time we met, and I should have called immediately; but when I asked for your address, I was told that your husband was in charge of the Lock Hospital " "Yes, the hospital for the diseases of women," Beth said. "But what difference does that make?"
Lady Claudia was a tall gaunt woman, hard in manner, with no pretension to any accomplishments; but wise, and of a faithful, affectionate disposition, which deeply endeared her to her friends. Lord Dawne came in next, with Dr. Galbraith and Mr. Kilroy of Ilverthorpe, and these were followed by Father Ricardo and Mr. Ellis, after whom came Ideala herself, alone.
Mr. Kilroy admired her immensely; she was the only subject upon which he ever became poetical, and somehow the combination of colours she wore on this occasion, with her lithe young figure and milk-white skin, made him think of an arum lily, and he told her so, and was very pleased with the pretty compliment when he had paid it, and with the dinner, and everything.
"But, oh, do tell me do make me understand, for I cannot believe it! I cannot believe it!" The woman pushed open the sitting room door, and led her in. "Was you a friend of his, miss or ma'am?" she asked. "I am Mrs. Kilroy of Ilverthorpe," Angelica answered. "Yes, I was a friend of his. I cared for him greatly. It is only a few days since I saw him alive and well.
Here's the carriage. No, you get in first." "But does Mrs. Orton Beg want me?" Beth asked when they were seated. "We all want you," said Mrs. Kilroy, "if you will forgive our first mistake with regard to you, and come out of yourself and be one of us. And you'll be specially fond of Mrs. Orton Beg when you know her, I fancy. She's just sweet!
The side of my nature which I turned to him as The Boy is the only one he has touched, and I could never care for him in any other relation." "Well, I don't know," Mr. Kilroy observed thoughtfully. "It may be so, of course, but it is unusual." "And so am I unusual," Angelica answered quickly; "but there will be plenty more like me by and by. Now don't look 'Heaven forbid! at me in that way."
What is the use of knowing when one can do nothing?" Again Mr. Kilroy looked up at the quiet stars; but Angelica gave him no time to reflect. "I don't see why I should be severely consistent," she said.
When he saw her he dismounted, and Angelica snatched the whip from his hand, and clenching her teeth gave the horse a vicious slash with it, which set him off at a gallop into the woods. Mr. Kilroy let him go, but he was silent for some seconds, and then he asked her in his peculiarly kindly way: "What is the matter, Angelica?"
Kilroy, who was in the chair, looked round for some one to fill the gap, and caught Beth's eye. "May I speak?" Beth whispered eagerly, leaning over to her. "I have something to say." Angelica nodded, gave the audience Beth's name, and then leant back in her chair. The shorthand writers looked up indifferently, not expecting to hear anything worth recording.
Kilroy resumed, when he had lit his cigar, and settled himself in a cane chair comfortably, with Angelica in another opposite. "What a lovely night it is after the rain yesterday" this by way of parenthesis. "Rather close, though," he observed, and then he returned to the subject. "I suppose you mean that you do not want it to be all over between you?"
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