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"Dites donc, Lady Brigit," began Joyselle in her left ear, and as she listened to him she instinctively drew away from Pontefract, closer to him. At dessert Kingsmead came sauntering in, less with the air of a little boy allowed to appear with the fruit than of a gently interested gentleman come to take a look at the strange beasts it amused him to keep in a remote corner of his park.
Brigit Mead did not go to bed at all that night. All night she worked in her little flat making her plans, packing, and writing letters. She had burnt her boats and the relief was great. Having broken with her mother, there was no need for her to write to Kingsmead. To Tommy she sent a note, saying that she was going away, but would write soon and explain.
He ate fruit in, to the unaccustomed eye, alarming quantities, and his mother's guests discussed him exactly as if he had not been there. A very plain little boy, Kingsmead, with stiff fair hair and many freckles. But for his mouth a most unremarkable-looking person, for his eyes, quick as those of a lizard, were pale blue in colour, and small.
"And for you to marry a nobody; the son of nobody knows whom!" "But everybody knows who his father is which is rather distinguished nowadays!" Then Lady Kingsmead, as was natural, quite lost her temper and stormed. Brigit was an idiot, a fool, a beastly little creature to do such a thing. Ponty was a gentleman, at least, whereas
Gerald Carron watched her, his face paling, and as Lady Kingsmead studied him, her own slowly reddened under its mask of paint and powder. The situation was an old one a woman, too late reciprocating the passion which she had toyed with for many years, suddenly brought face to face with the realisation that this love had been transferred to a younger woman, and that woman her own daughter.
Doctor Kingsmead turned his face for a moment towards the door, to hear a peculiar dull distant roar, different from any sound with which he was familiar.
Doctor Kingsmead gave the speaker a hearty slap on the shoulder. "Bostock," he said, "you're a philosopher. There, we'll make the best of things, and, in the hope that our poor friends are all saved, I will not murmur against our fate." "That's right, sir, and now if you don't mind my being a bit rough I'll be cook and stooard, and you'll soon have your bit to eat, and when you've done "
"I I don't know, mother. I am so tired, I can't think." Lady Kingsmead took up a letter that lay beside her and handed it to her daughter. "Read this dear," she said rather humbly. And Brigit read: "Dear Tony," it ran, in a curious irregular, downward-trending hand, "I've been awfully bad again, or I should have written before.
"It won't move, so you'll have to," observed Kingsmead, wriggling a little nearer, "Oh, I say do buck up, or you'll never get there " And the carp, quite as if he understood, did buck up, and slid away into the shadow of the rhododendrons. Kingsmead rose slowly and picked up his cap. What should he do next?
Lady Kingsmead tried to talk to him, but finding that, though he answered her politely enough, his thoughts were elsewhere, gave him up and took up a book, casting an impatient look at her daughter. Carron had gone early, too restless to stay quiet, and afraid to rouse Brigit out of her curious lethargic state. For a long time the three people sat in silence, and then Lady Kingsmead rose.
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