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She wanted her supper, and with a significant glance at her daughter she beckoned the redoubtable and reluctant Mrs. Porter from the room. Catesby heard the kitchen-door close behind them, but he made no move. Prudence stood gazing at him in silence. "If you want to go," she said, at last, "now is your chance."
Then, before she could say another word, he was gone. It was in very truth like an apparition. She sat there for some time staring in front of her, still shaken by the violence of his interruption. She went then to the kitchen-door and listened not a sound in the house. She went farther, out through the passage to the hall-door. She opened it and looked out.
"Oh I wonder whur my baby's done gone, Oh Lawd! An' I git on my knees an' pray." The song stopped, a negro boy sprang out the kitchen-door and ran for the stiles a tall, strong, and very black boy with a dancing eye, white teeth, and a look of welcome that was little short of dumb idolatry. "Howdy, Bob." "Howdy, Ole Cap'n."
When Joan returned from her visit to Gorse Point, she found a hard-faced woman, thin of figure, with untidy hair, wrinkled brow and sharp features, engaged about a pile of washing in the garden at the kitchen-door. Mrs. Tregenza heard the girl arrive, and spoke without lifting her little gray eyes from the clothes.
Trafford at last remembered the lateness of the hour, and said, "Come, Hagar, this is no place for us. We will go in." The two slowly made their way along the shore up to the dark and deserted stone house. Hagar smothered the sigh that rose up from her heart as the silence and loneliness smote upon it, and led the way around to her kitchen-door.
Fess the beast in here, Cosmo; I s' be answerable for 'im. The puir animal canna bide my lord." "Hoot, hoot, Grizzie," began the laird anew, with displeasure in his tone, but already the dog was in, and the kitchen-door closed. "Leave her alone, Mr. Warlock, if you don't want to have the worst of it," said his lordship, trying to laugh.
Louie was talking so fast and laughing so much that neither of them had heard David's latchkey, and in his surprise the brother stood still a moment in the dark, looking round the kitchen-door, which stood a little open.
And did you hear nothing? A piercing shriek that rang through the house; you must surely have heard it, both of you." Martha shook her head resolutely. "Not me, mum; I didn't hear a sound. The kitchen-door was shut all the time Sarah was away, and I was busy at work, and thinking of nothing but my work. I wasn't upon the listen, as you may say."
Betty Jo suddenly paused in her work, and stood very still: "I wonder," she said slowly, "can it be, is it possible, what if Auntie Sue has brought about this situation for that very reason?" "Breakfast ready?" cried Brian at the kitchen-door, and his voice was so hearty and natural that the girl answered as naturally: "It will be as soon as you are ready for it.
She did not press my hand, and I could not go. "You can't say you love me," I cried; "then say you don't. Anything rather than this doubt." "Oh, Mr. Browne!" she replied, at last, "I can't say anything but good bye!" "Good bye, then," I said, sadly. "But shall you still live here?" "Oh, no!" she exclaimed, earnestly; "you can't think that I" Here she stopped, and glanced towards the kitchen-door.
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