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"One's coming to-day," said Sylvia, laughing; and slipping her arm around Leila's waist, she strolled with her out through the tall glass doors to the terrace, with a backward glance of airy dismissal for Siward. Plank had wired from New York, the night before, that he was coming; in another hour he would be there.
She withdrew herself from Leila's touch, and, crossing her arms tightly across her chest, said: "I can't bear it; I can't sleep. I want him back; I hate life I hate the world. We hadn't done anything only just loved each other. God likes punishing; just because we loved each other; we had only one day to love each other only one day only one!"
She says Leila's perfectly happy. It's as if an angel had gone about lifting gravestones, and the buried people walked again, and the living didn't shrink from them." "That's about it," he assented. She drew a deep breath, and sat looking away from him down the long perspective of lamp-fringed streets over which her windows hung. "I can understand how happy you must be," he began at length.
"I didn't imagine the fact of Harriet Fresbie's not even asking if she might see me when she knew I was in the house. Nor of Mary Giles's getting Susy, at the eleventh hour, to smuggle her up to my room when the others wouldn't know where she'd gone; nor poor Leila's ghastly fear lest Mrs.
When Noel fled, Fort had started forward to stop her; then, realising that with his lameness he could never catch her, he went back and entered Leila's bedroom. She had taken off her dress, and was standing in front of her glass, with the cigarette still in her mouth; and the only movement was the curling of its blue smoke.
On the front seat of Leila's roadster, beside Leila, Marjorie was silent for a little, as Leila skilfully guided the trim roadster in and out of the considerable traffic of Herndon Avenue, Hamilton's main thoroughfare. "Have you seen any of the Sans yet, Leila?" she presently questioned. The car was now turning into Highland Avenue, which led directly to Hamilton Estates.
You asked me to wait. The youngster is rather reticent, and Leila is about the only person in the house who really knows much about him. He talks like a man of thirty." "I do not find him reticent," remarked Mrs. Ann, "and his manners are charming I wish Leila's were half as good." "Well, let's hear about him." "May I smoke?" asked the rector. "Anywhere but in my drawing-room.
I went upstairs and manacured my nails, which usually comforts me, and put my hair up like Leila's. But nothing could calm me. I had made my own Fate, and must lie in it. And just then Hannah slipped in with a box in her hands and her eyes frightened. "Oh, Miss Barbara!" she said. "If your mother sees this!" I dropped my manacure scizzors, I was so alarmed.
Now quiet yourself and let us talk it over calmly." "Yes yes." She wiped her eyes. "Do smoke, James I like it." "Oh, you dear liar," he said. "And so it was Grey?" She looked up. "Yes, George Grey; but, James, he did not know how much we liked Josiah nor how good he had been to me, and how he got hurt when he stopped Leila's pony.
Lidcote's daughter and her friends: their Coras, Matties and Mabels seemed at any moment likely to reveal familiar patronymics, and once one of the speakers, summing up a discussion of which Mrs. Lidcote had missed the beginning, had affirmed with headlong confidence: "Leila? Oh, Leila's all right." Could it be her Leila, the mother had wondered, with a sharp thrill of apprehension?
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