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Ledley, and had told the landlord that he was giving up the house. Then he went to Shawyer and asked how a man set about finding a school for two little girls. "A boarding school?" Mr. Shawyer asked, and the Beggar Man said "Yes, and a top-hole one too!
They were in the little sitting-room now, where tea was laid ready, and the twins sitting up to table. Mrs. Ledley was busying herself with the teapot. She answered absently that King Cophetua was only a man in a story, a king who married a beggar maid. "But it was only a story, Faith," she added earnestly. "One of those stories which couldn't end happily even if it came true."
It was early evening, and Faith had come home from work to find Mrs. Ledley dressed to go out. "You won't be long, mother, will you?" she urged. She dreaded being alone in the house. Though it was early evening, the twins were in bed and asleep, and everything seemed very still. "I shan't be long," her mother answered, "but I must have a breath of air. The house has stifled me all day.
This is a bad business," he said despondently. "Yes." The doctor was looking at him with puzzled eyes. "You must forgive me," he said at last, "but I have known Mrs. Ledley and her family for several years now, and I had no idea that the child in the next room was married!" Forrester coloured a little. "We were married three weeks ago," he explained grudgingly.
I left on my own account." Mrs. Ledley went on crying. She sobbed out that she wished she was dead, that she did not see what was the use of going on living. Faith went down on her knees beside her and the twins held hands and cried for sympathy. "There's nothing to cry for, mother," Faith urged, kissing her. "There's only something to be glad about. Such a wonderful thing has happened.
Faith held out her left hand with its new wedding ring. "Because I've married a Fairy Prince," she said. Mrs. Ledley stared at the little ring for a moment in absolute silence, then she broke out tremblingly: "Faith! It's not true! You're just teasing me! It's just a joke! You couldn't have got married without telling me first! Why, there's nobody who would ask you!"
Ledley could be very firm when she chose, and Faith knew well what opposition she would have to encounter. A sudden idea flashed across her mind. "But we need not tell her, need we?" A faint smile crossed his face. "You mean till we are married?" "Yes."
"Not going back!" Mrs. Ledley stared at her helplessly for a moment; then she burst into tears. "I knew something had happened," she sobbed. "I knew you hadn't been yourself all this week. What have you done, Faith, that they've sent you away just when you were settling down so nicely?" "I haven't done anything," said Faith. "At least ... nothing you will mind. And I wasn't sent away.
She walked into the house quite steadily and stooped to kiss the twins. "We're all going for a ride this afternoon," she told them. "A lovely ride right down into the country." The twins clung clamouring round her. "In the country! On a bus?" they asked in one voice. Faith laughed happily. "No," she said, "we're going to have a taxicab." Mrs. Ledley, coming from the kitchen, heard the words.
Faith's face fell a little; in her eagerness and excitement she had forgotten what her mother would say. "I I'm afraid she won't quite like it," she said slowly. She was sure that her mother would not like it. Mrs. Ledley had always been so careful about Faith's choice of friends that the girl knew what an astonishing proposal she would consider this offer of marriage to be. Mrs.
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