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Updated: June 13, 2025
A patient, half-sad, half-quizzical smile visited Frances Freeland's lips, as who should say: 'Yes, I know you think that I'm a fuss-box, but it really is a pity that you wear it so, darling! At sight of that smile, Kirsteen got up and kissed her gravely on the forehead.
Nedda learned of Kirsteen and Sheila all the useful things she could; the evenings she passed with Derek, those long evenings of late May and early June, this year so warm and golden. They walked generally in the direction of the hills. A favorite spot was a wood of larches whose green shoots had not yet quite ceased to smell of lemons.
It's in my family to see things. That'll go away." Nedda said passionately: "I don't believe he'll ever lose it while he goes on here, tearing his heart out. And they're trying to get me away from him. I know they are!" Kirsteen turned; her eyes seemed to blaze. "They? Ah! Yes! You'll have to fight if you want to marry a rebel, Nedda!" Nedda put her hands to her forehead, bewildered.
Little difficulties of this sort never bunkered her; she was essentially a woman of action. And on the drive to Joyfields she stilled the girl's quavering with: "It's all right, darling; it'll be very nice for them." She was perhaps the only person in the world who was not just a little bit afraid of Kirsteen.
And at the wicket gate Kirsteen, awaiting the arrival of Derek and Sheila summoned home by telegram stood in the evening glow, her blue-clad figure still as that of any worshipper at the muezzin-call. "A fire, causing the destruction of several ricks and an empty cowshed, occurred in the early morning of Thursday on the home farm of Sir Gerald Malloring's estate in Worcestershire.
She longed to, all the same, feeling that to be closer to her aunt meant to be closer to Derek. Yet, with all, she knew that her own nature was very different; this, perhaps, egged her on, and made her aunt seem all the more exciting. She waited breathless till Kirsteen said: "Yes, you and Derek must know each other better. The worst kind of prison in the world is a mistaken marriage."
It was his habit to feel less when he talked more; but no one could have fallen into a more perfect taciturnity than he when he saw Kirsteen coming up those narrow stairs. In so small a space as this room, where his head nearly touched the ceiling, was it fair to be confronted by that lady he put it to his wife that same evening "Was it fair?"
"You are like your father," she said "a doubter." Nedda shook her head. "I can't persuade myself to see what isn't there. I never can, Aunt Kirsteen." Without reply, save a quiver of her brows, Kirsteen went back into the house. And Nedda stayed on the pebbled path before the cottage, unhappy, searching her own soul.
Nedda nodded fervently. "It must be. But I think one knows, Aunt Kirsteen!" She felt as if she were being searched right down to the soul before the answer came: "Perhaps. I knew myself. I have seen others who did a few. I think you might." Nedda flushed from sheer joy. "I could never go on if I didn't love. I feel I couldn't, even if I'd started."
In Felix, contemplating his daughter's face, there was profound compassion, but also that family dismay, that perturbation of self-esteem, which public scandal forces on kinsmen, even the most philosophic. He felt exasperation against Derek, against Kirsteen, almost even against Tod, for having acquiesced passively in the revolutionary bringing-up which had brought on such a disaster.
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