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The result of which outpouring was that through all the anger and denunciation, Nelly very plainly perceived that Cicely was a captured creature, endeavouring to persuade herself that she was still free. She loved Marsworth and hated him.
'There, you see! she said, in her sharpest voice 'Look there! For two of the figures, whom it was easy to identify as Captain Marsworth and Miss Stewart, diverging from the other pair, went off by themselves in the direction of Skelwith, with a gay wave of the hand to the old Rector and Farrell left behind. Cicely's sudden scarlet ebbed in a moment, leaving her quite white.
At any rate, whenever Marsworth and Cicely fall out, which they do every day Cicely has the vile habit of course you know! of visiting Marsworth's sins upon little Daisy Stewart. I understood she was guilty of some enormity at the Red Cross sale in the village last week. Marsworth was shocked, and had it out with her. Consequently they haven't been on speaking terms for days.
Cicely seated herself on the end of a sofa, crossed her feet, and took out a cigarette. But to Marsworth's intense relief she had taken off the helmet-like erection she called a hat, and her black curly hair strayed as it pleased about her brow and eyes. 'Well? she said, at last, looking at him coolly. Marsworth could not help laughing.
Marsworth and Cicely had no choice but to pair; and she, with a grey hat and plume half a yard high, preposterously short skirts, and high-heeled boots buttoned to the knee, condescended to stroll beside him, watching his grave embarrassed look with an air of detachment as dramatically complete as she could make it.
'And the old man's a bit of a collector and wants to see the Turners. He knows Carton by heart. So I had to ask them to come up to-morrow and there it is! Cicely will find them in possession, with Marsworth in attendance! 'Why does she come at all? said Nelly, wondering. 'She knows Captain Marsworth will be here. She said so, in her telegram. Farrell shrugged his shoulders.
She was fond of Cicely, in spite of that young lady's extravagances of dress and manner, and she divined something gone wrong. 'Nothing is the matter nothing at all. It is only necessary, sometimes, to shock people, said Cicely, calming down. She threw her head back against the chair and closed her eyes, while her lips still smiled triumphantly. 'Were you trying to shock Captain Marsworth?
But for her few days in France, however, with Nelly Sarratt, Marsworth might still have had some wrestles to go through with Cicely. At the very moment when Farrell's telephone message arrived, imploring her to take charge of Nelly on her journey, Cicely was engaged in fresh quarrelling with her long-suffering lover.
On this day of all days, to be snobbishly playing the great lady in Mrs. Sarratt's small sitting-room! Whenever that was Cicely's mood she lisped; and as often as Marsworth, who was sitting far away from her, talking to Bridget Cookson, caught her voice, it seemed to him that she was lisping affectedly monstrously.
And as young Fellows has nothing but his present pay a year with board and lodging it seemed hopeless. But now he has got his eye on something. And in a quiet business-like voice Marsworth put the case of the penniless one his qualifications, his ambitions, and the particular post under the Army Medical Board on which he had set his hopes. If only somebody with influence would give him a leg up!
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