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He came back the following evening completely altered very silent and absorbed, but with a kind of change over him which Nan and I could not help noticing. I asked him if he had seen anything of Squire Lorrimer, and he looked hard at me and said 'I wonder if you are in it, too." "Oh, I know, I know," said Annie softly, rubbing her hands; "dear Antonia, dear Antonia."
"You seem to have tried to make it appear as bad for yourself as you can. Why did you not leave your husband when Lorrimer advised you to?" "If I had gone then I should have been obliged to live somewhere else a long way from Lorrimer; and I might never have seen him again."
She kissed me, too, quite half-a-dozen times. Look here, Hetty, I don't want you to ask Annie Forest a lot of questions about me. I can't help having a romping time now and then at school; and there are two new girls Polly and Milly Jenkins; they are so killingly funny; nearly as good as Boris and Kitty Lorrimer.
She has taken Dick Challoner to Connie Stapleton's house in Hampstead. It's one of the headquarters of the set, though, of course, the principal headquarters are at 300 Cumberland Place. How furious Lord Easterton would be if he knew! He suspects nothing as yet, I think." "But how do you know that Doris Lorrimer has taken the boy to that Hampstead house?"
Did I ever tell you how she saved Nan's life years ago at Lavender House?" "Oh, that's an old story," said Annie, laughing and reddening. "Well, granted that I possess a sort of mesmerism, may I use it for Nora's benefit?" "Certainly, my love," said Mrs. Lorrimer, smiling affectionately at Annie's bright face. She ran off, singing as she went.
But the journey ended at last though that was little relief with the task I had before me still unaccomplished. A bulbous functionary took my card to Lorrimer when I presented myself at the Great Hospital next day, and returning presently informed me that Mr. Lorrimer was disengaged, and would see me at once, if I would be so good as to come this way. How familiar the whole proceeding seemed!
He began with the rest to praise Lorrimer, but when he saw he was doing so at his own expense, by diverting her attention from himself to his subject, he somewhat lowered his tone. "Every one seems to like Mr. Lorrimer," Ideala said. "O yes, he's certainly a nice fellow; but he puts a lot of side on." "And well he may, being so very good and well-beloved," she answered, smiling.
She was nervous, too; the silence was oppressive, but she could not break it. She felt some inexplicable change in her relations with Lorrimer which made it impossible to speak. Furtively she watched him, trying to discover if he felt it too. The look of age was on his face, and it was clouded with discontent. Anxiously she sought some sign of sickness to account for it. But, no.
Servants went backwards and forwards with books. Another gentleman came in and looked at her curiously, and then went away. She began to feel uncomfortable, and wondered what was keeping Lorrimer so long. She thought, too, of leaving the place at once, and going back by an earlier train than she had intended, but it would hardly have been polite.
If I might be made the means of saving it " Then after a little pause, she added: "Ah, how beautiful death is! He will be glad, as I should be now, to meet it and yet more glad! for then the end will have come for him, but I should have still to wait." The rumour of Lorrimer's engagement, however, proved to be false. It was another Lorrimer, a cousin of his.
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