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There was a silence of a few minutes, during which she closed her eyes again; but she heard Miss MacDowlas fidgeting a little, and at last she heard her speak. "My dear," she said, "I think I ought to tell you something. When you fell, I suppose you must somehow or other have pressed the spring of your locket, for it was open when I went to you, and I saw the face inside it."
But she knew the rest of them would regard it as rather a rich joke that chance should have thrown her into the hands of Miss MacDowlas. They had all so often laughed at Griffith's descriptions of her and her letters, given generally when he had been galled into a caustic mood by the arrival of one of the latter. Beaching Bloomsbury Place, Dolly found her lover there.
And that Miss MacDowlas recognized her also was quite evident, for she advanced with the air of one who was not at all at a loss. "How do you do?" she remarked, succinctly, and gave Dolly her hand. That young person took it modestly. "I believe I have had the pleasure " she was beginning, when Miss MacDowlas interrupted her. "You met me at the Bilberrys'," she said.
Miss MacDowlas wished to form the acquaintance of the whole family, it appeared, and apart from this her visit had rather an important object. "It is a sort of farewell visit," she explained, "though, of course, the farewell is only to be a temporary one. We find London too hot for us, and we are going to try Switzerland. The medical man thinks a change will be beneficial to your sister."
There were some orders to be left at the poulterer's and fruiterer's, and some bills to be paid in town, and, these affairs being her business, Miss MacDowlas had good-naturedly ordered the carriage for her, as she had a long round to make. Dolly got up and laid her work aside.
She shall come home some afternoon. I know Miss MacDowlas will let her, and you shall sit in the parlor together, Grif, and make everything straight, and begin afresh." He could not help being roused somewhat by such a prospect. The cloud was lifted for one instant, even if it fell upon him again the next. "I shall have to wait a week," he said.
It was rather an odd interview, upon the whole, but it did not end unfortunately. Miss MacDowlas wanted a companion who was quick-witted and amusing, and, having seen that Dolly was both on the evening of the Bilberry clan gathering, she had taken a fancy to her. So after a little sharp questioning, she announced her decision.
When the hot July days came in, the ring of pearls and amethyst would stay on the small worn hand no longer, and so was taken off and hung with the little bunch of coquettish "charms" upon her chain. But she was not conquered yet, and the guests and servants often heard her laughing, and making Miss MacDowlas laugh as they sat together in their private parlor.
She never knew about him, poor fellow!" It was curious to see how she still clung to that tender old pitying way of speaking of Grif. Aimee began to cry over her again. "You must come home, Dolly," she said. "You must, indeed. You will get worse and worse if you stay here. I will speak to Miss MacDowlas myself. You say she is kind to you."
Phemie's despairing letters to herself sufficiently explained why her progress was so slow. "I hope," said her ladyship to Miss MacDowlas, afterward, "that you are satisfied with Dorothea's manner of filling her position in your household." "I never was so thoroughly satisfied in my life," returned the old lady, stiffly.
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