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Both forgot everything in the interest of the collection; so that, when the last tray was completed, they were surprised to find that two trains had gone while they were busy, and another had become due, and there was only time to jump into a hansom to catch it. Lorrimer was still irritable. "Why on earth does a lady always carry her purse in her hand?" he said, as they drove along.
Has anybody a question to ask?" Nobody spoke. "Annie O'Neil," said Nick, "I'll leave here in Patsy's charge. Horace Richmond, come with us." Horace looked ugly for a moment, and then he calmed down and sullenly complied with Nick's order. Judge Lorrimer begged to be of the party in order to see the explanation of the mysterious robberies of which he had heard.
"You had better come and have some luncheon before you go back," he said. And she went. As they left the building Lorrimer asked her: "Where on earth did my cousin meet you?" with the slightest possible emphasis. Ideala understood him, and laughed. "Upon my word I don't know who introduced her," she answered, standing on her dignity nevertheless. "I can't remember."
"Lorrimer is restored to your good graces now, I suppose," Claudia said, in her half sarcastic way, when the mistake was explained. I had not told her what was in my mind; she had read my thoughts. "You think that a man whom Ideala has loved should consider himself sacred," she added. I did not answer.
"And I was wandering," she continued, "in some such mental mist, lost and despairing, when Lorrimer came into my life, and changed everything for me in a moment, like the sun. Would you have me believe that he was sent to me then only for an evil purpose?
He registered cold reasons for his disgust. Beginning in the first person, he loathed himself as a thick-headed ass for talking to Betty as he had done; as well put a burr under one's saddle and then feel surprise because the horse bucks. He passed on to the others with equal precision. Captain Lorrimer was as dirty as a greaser; and like a greaser, loose-lipped, unshaven.
Laburnums and lilacs were in full flower, the air was sweet with scent and song, and to one who had borne the heavy winter with a heavy heart, but was able at last to lay down a load of care, the transition must have been like a sudden change from painful sickness to perfect health. Ideala went to the Great Hospital at once. She had written to fix a day, and Lorrimer was waiting for her.
"I have taken up the cause of the Lorrimers. The Lorrimers are leaving the Towers because Squire Lorrimer has got into money difficulties. I don't know how, and I don't know why. He is obliged to sell the beautiful and noble home of his ancestors to clear himself of these difficulties.
Lorrimer, with her usual gentle motherly expression, had not appeared on the scene. "Jane," said the mother, smiling round with her blue eyes at each of the children, "Hester wants us to get up a hasty picnic to Friar's Wood. The day is perfect, and this is the first of Nan's holidays, so I hope you will not object, particularly if the children promise to work extra well to-morrow."
"Not a chick or child had Parson Lorrimer of his own. He had never married, but lived in the old parsonage, a stately mansion, with rooms enough in it to accommodate a big family, with only an elderly widow and her grown-up son to minister to his wants and to keep him company.
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