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"That's what I've been trying to convey. Once bitten, twice shy!" He laughed again and slipped the two rings over his finger with an air of finality. "Now, shall I start? This is the latch-key?" He drew a key from the pocket of Chilcote's evening-clothes.
And somehow that latch-key had to be returned. He did not use it, but rang, with the intention of handing it to the servant; an intention divined and frustrated by Poppy, who opened the door to him herself. "Don't go away," she said, "I've got something to tell you." "Not now, I think " Her eyes were hideous to him in their great rings of paint and bistre. "Why ever not? It'll only tyke a minute.
If you want a latch-key, why don't you go to ma and say so like a man? There it is, and you'd have it directly." "O most unreasonable Lydia! How many times must I explain to you that that wouldn't do, because your ma, while she possesses many of the charms, is not quite exempt from the weakness of her sex: in short, Lydia, she talks." "Well, what then?
But the men were weary and uncommunicative; Estcourt Craig went to his club after dinner; Stephen, now possessing a latch-key, disappeared shortly afterward. Paige and Marye did embroidery and gossipped together under the big crystal chandelier while their mother read aloud to them from "Great Expectations," which was running serially in Harper's Weekly.
On the day of the big race at Kempton Park, in which the Ambler, starting favourite, was left at the post, George Pendyce had just put his latch-key in the door of the room he had taken near Mrs. Bellew, when a man, stepping quickly from behind, said: "Mr. George Pendyce, I believe." George turned. "Yes; what do you want?" The man put into George's hand a long envelope. "From Messrs.
Nobody has been in the room since, save myself, and you for a few minutes to-day when I called you in. And yet the paper is gone!" "Could anybody have come into the room by the other door?" asked Jan. "No. It opens with a latch-key only, as this does, and the key was safe in my pocket." "Well, this beats everything," cried Jan. "It's like the codicil at Verner's Pride."
He bantered her ceaselessly through breakfast next morning, and for the first time she could find no word to reply to him. Her head drooped; she touched nothing on the table. Before going off he asked her what the appointment was for to-day, and advised her not to forget her latch-key. Alice scarcely heard him, she was shame-stricken and wobegone.
Her fingers had rested idly on the keyboard for some minutes, when they began to touch solemn chords, and at length there sounded the first notes of a homely strain, one of the most familiar of the Church's hymns. It ceased abruptly; Lilian rose and went to another part of the room. A few minutes later her ear caught the sound for which she was now waiting that of a latch-key at the front door.
That's why he went home, let himself in with his latch-key and made his way furtively to the library, where the embers of last night's fire were still warm. He had an hour at least before the servants would be stirring.
Stevens sat in high dudgeon, at being so long restrained from her favourite beverage by the unusually deferred absence of her husband. At length she was rejoiced by hearing his well-known step as he came through the garden, and the rattle of his latch-key as he opened the door was quite musical in her ears.
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