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Updated: June 12, 2025
There was a certain flavor of domesticity in these quiet hours passed together in the garden, interrupted only by the child as she ran hither and thither breaking in on them, sometimes not unpleasantly when speech was growing embarrassed because emotion was growing too strong, that seemed to Leam the sweetest experience which life could give her were she to live for ever; and the sunless stillness of the day suited her nature even better than the gayer glory of yesterday.
Presently he said, tempting her with the lover's affectation of distrust, "I do not think you love me really, my Leam," bending over her as if he would have folded her to his heart. Had she been any but Leam he would. But the love-ways that came so easy to him were lessons all unlearnt as yet by her, and he respected both her reticence and her reluctance.
He lifted her in his arms, placed her on his shoulder like a big blue forget-me-not gathered from the grass, then deposited her by Leam on the seat beneath the cut-leaved hornbeam. And Leam was grateful that the little one was there. It was somehow a protection against herself.
Fina was on her stepfather's knee, caressing his hand and Josephine's, which were clasped together on her little lap, while his other arm encircled the substantial waist of his promised bride, whose disengaged hand rested on his shoulder. "Leam," said the father, "I have given you " He stopped. The name which he was about to utter, with all its passionate memories, was left unsaid.
There was something statuesque, almost dead, about her something that was not the same Leam whom he had known from the first. He went up to her, both hands held out. She shrank back and folded hers in each other, still not looking at him. "Why, Leam, what is it?" he cried in amazement, pained, shocked at her action. Was she in her right mind?
I see Adelaide Birkett and the Fairbairns. Why not go to them with Alick?" "It looks silly balancing one's self on the edge of a knife. And I should fall," said Leam. "No, you shall not fall," Alick pleaded. "I will undertake that you shall not." His arm was still held out, always awkwardly crooked. Leam lifted her eyes. "No," she said with her old calm decision, and moved away.
"If you had only the brave old Norse blood in you, you would take to the frost and ice like second nature." "No, I am not English pur sang," answered Leam gravely. "I am more than half Spanish," a little proudly. "Hang it all, you can't make it more than half!" said her father testily.
He did not see the eyes that were watching him from behind the broken wall, nor the jealous ears that were drinking in their own pain so greedily. He saw only Leam, and was conscious only that he loved her and she him.
Then Edgar cut the whole thing short by taking her away in silence, but like a whirlwind, saying, when half over the ground and well out of hearing, "What have I done to you, Miss Dundas, that you should try to throw me over like that?" "You laughed at me," said Leam. "Laughed at you? You are dreaming." "You did," she persisted.
On which, as if to prevent any reply, he turned away, and the next moment was standing by Leam sitting in the window-seat half concealed by the curtain, Alick paying awkward homage as his manner was. Leam gave the faintest little start, that was more a shiver than a start, as he came up.
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