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His brain, they say, is over-active." Poor Lady Kingsmead burst into tears, wiping her eyes on the fringe of her shawl. Brigit patted the strangely shrunken head compassionately. "Don't cry, mother," she said. "Is he in his room?" "No in the boudoir. His chimney smokes so in the autumn, you know." Tommy lay in his own brass bed in the silken nest of his mother, a white-capped nurse by his side.
He stood where Lady Kingsmead had left him, the light falling directly on his head in a way that showed up very plainly the curious halo-like effect caused by the silver greyness of the hair about his brow. "What is wrong, Master?" she asked softly, using Tommy's name for him. He started. "The matter? Nothing that bears talking about, Brigit. But I am in its clutches and I will go."
And I must write Ponty before we tell." Her practical tone struck chill on Joyselle's glowing young ear, but he followed her obediently to the house. As they reached the door the opening bar of Mendelssohn's Wedding March rang out, played with a mastery of the pianola that, in that house, only Kingsmead was capable of. On entering, Brigit's face was scarlet.
Well I don't care what you say about Brigit, I know she is all right. As yet, anyway," she added. "She loves that that brute," he stammered, wiping the perspiration from his face with a crumpled handkerchief. "I saw her face as she left his studio." Lady Kingsmead pursed her mouth thoughtfully. "That may be," she admitted. "I've thought for some time that something was in the air "
I'd like to 'ave been a fly on the wall during that there interview, I would. A fly on the wall with a tiste for short'and." Lady Kingsmead, who was going to the Newlyns' ball later, was having dinner in her little sitting-room when Carron came rushing in, nearly treading on the heels of the afflicted Fledge, who did like to have a chance to announce visitors properly.
"I meant about the beastly money." She laughed. "Funny little kiddie! You aren't going to have any money either. If we lived within our means we'd be enjoying life in a villa in some horrible suburb. We are hideously poor, Kingsmead." She so rarely called him by his name that the boy felt alarmed. Pontefract, with his red neck and his short legs, seemed suddenly very near.
"Is he is he going to die?" she asked abruptly. Sir George hesitated. "We scientists are supposed to be atheists, my dear young lady," he returned, looking at his watch, "but I believe in God. And in all reverence I can say in this case that only He can tell. Lord Kingsmead is very weak, and I greatly dislike the abnormal activity of his brain, but God is good. So let us hope."
She looked sulky, disagreeable, and secretive, but she was strangely and undeniably beautiful. Her long, thin-lipped mouth was too close shut, but it was of an exquisite satin texture, scarlet in colour, and when she said "Hello, Tommy," it melted into the most enchanting and indescribable curves, showing just a glimpse of pointed white teeth. Kingsmead studied her gravely for a moment.
Please, I'm so thirsty; and it is so hot!" Twice over Doctor Kingsmead heard that appeal, but he could not move to respond to it, for Nature would have her way.
"I am going to town, mother," she began, without preamble, "and in a day or so I shall join Tommy at Margate. Dr. Long says I had better go, but I have some things to see to first." Lady Kingsmead, who was blackening her eyebrows before her glass, turned, one eye made up, the other very undressed-looking in its natural condition. "But you'll come back, Brigit? You aren't angry any more?"
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