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She remembered Aimée's warning at last, and rose rather in a hurry. "I shall have to walk quickly if I want to get home in time for tea," she said, "so good-night, Dolly. You had better finish dressing." "So I had," answered Dolly. "I am behind time already, but I shall not be many minutes, and Miss MacDowlas is not like Lady Augusta. Listen; I believe I hear wheels at the door now.
No innocent coquetries now, no spirit, no jests; for the present at least she had done with them, too. "You are not in your usual spirits, my dear," said Miss MacDowlas. "No," she answered, quietly, "I am not."
She had plenty to say about Miss MacDowlas and their visitors and her own duties; indeed, any one but Aimée would have been puzzled by her courage and apparent good spirits. But Aimée saw below the surface, and understood, and, understanding, was fonder of her than ever. As both Dolly and herself had expected, Mollie did not keep her secret from the oracle many weeks.
"Did he behave badly to you, my dear?" "No, I behaved badly to him and that is why I am ill." Miss MacDowlas blew her nose. "How long?" she asked, at length. "May I ask how long you were engaged to each other, my dear? Don't answer me if you do not wish." "I was engaged to him," faltered the girlish voice, "we were all the world to each other for seven years for seven long years."
The notice given her had been unexpected. Lady Augusta had said it was because her pupils were old enough to be sent from home. "Oh!" said Miss MacDowlas, and looked at her again from her hat to her shoes. "You are fond of reading?" she asked next "Yes," answered Dolly. "You read French well?" "Yes," said Dolly. She knew she need not hesitate to say that, at least.
"Well yes no," answered Dolly, with a half laugh. "I should say I know somebody who does." And she looked as if she was rather enjoying some small joke of her own. The fact was that Miss MacDowlas was no other than Griffith's amiable aunt. But, of course, it would not have done to tell this to Euphemia Bilberry.
"Not," he prompted her, somewhat bitterly, "when the MacDowlas gives dinner-parties, and you find yourself a prominent feature, 'young person, as you are? Not when you wear the white merino, and 'heavy swells' admire you openly?" "No," shaking her head in stout denial of the imputation. "Never.
Now and then he heard of Gowan dropping in to spend a few hours at Brabazon Lodge, and now and then he heard of his good fortune in having found in Miss MacDowlas a positive champion. He was even a favorite with her, just as he was a favorite with many other people.
She said she had a headache. "I took Dolly her dress," she said. "They are having a grand party and Does Miss MacDowlas know Mr. Gowan, Griffith?" Griffith started and changed countenance at once. "No," he answered. "Why?" "He was there," she said, listlessly. "I met him in the hall as I came out, but he did not see me.
THE postman paid frequent visits to Bloomsbury Place during these summer weeks. At first Dolly wrote often herself, but later it seemed to fall to Miss MacDowlas to answer Aimée's weekly letters and Mollie's fortnightly ones.
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