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Updated: June 10, 2025
"You mustn't do that!" urged Miss Meakin. "Why not?" "You'll get yourself disliked if you do." "What are they here for, if not to sit on?" "They have to be there; but you won't be here long if you're seen using them, 'cept when the Government inspector is about." "It's cruel, unfair," began Mavis, but her friend merely shrugged her shoulders as she moved away to wait on a customer.
And now you It ain't for the love of toastin' bread that you've set yourself down 'longside this fireplace, Deacon Meakin, and I do wish you'd put me out my misery an' tell plump and straight what's possessin' this village of Marsden this day!" "You pretend you don't know, widow?" "No, I don't pretend. I never 'pretended' a thing in my life.
I tried wearing flannel, but they come down on it jess the same, 'arder if anything." Soon after nine, Miss Meakin came in, having travelled from "Dawes'" with all dispatch by the "Tube."
Mr Napper made as if he would approach Miss Jennings, but was restrained by Miss Meakin, who stamped angrily on his corns, and, when he danced with pain, stared menacingly at him. When he recovered, Miss Jennings begged him to tell her character by her face.
"Oh, thank you, thank you, you darling Aunty Eunice!" springing up to hug her guardian ecstatically. Then, with her young cheek against the older one: "And would it be too much to ask Deacon Meakin to to stay away that day?" "Why, Katharine, that couldn't be. Besides giving him offence, how could we spare him?" "Monty and I could do the chores. Bob Turner could milk.
Miss Meakin, noticing Mavis change colour, remarked: "We're all like that at first: you'll soon get used to it." If the atmosphere of the downstair regions discouraged appetite, the air in the glazed bricked dining-room was enough to take it away; it was heavy with the reek arising from cooked joints and vegetables.
Little was said, but just before Mavis started, Miss Meakin came to her and whispered: "Wish us luck, dear." "Luck?" queried Mavis. "Don't you know of uncle and to-day's great doings?" Mavis shook her head. "Uncle and the King Emperor," explained Miss Meakin. "There's a royal kick up to-day, and uncle and the King Emperor will be there."
"I could have married Mr Napper a month ago in fact he begged me on his knees to," bridled Miss Meakin. "Why didn't you?" "We're going to his aunt's at Littlehampton for the honeymoon, but I'm certainly not going till it's the season there." Mavis smiled. "Would you?" asked Miss Meakin. "Not if that sort of thing appealed to me."
She was not permitted to go before she promised to let Miss Meakin know the result of her visit to Mr Napper. Mavis spent three of her precious pennies in getting to the office of Mr Keating, which was situated in a tiny court running out of Holborn.
Upon Mavis interviewing Mrs Scatchard on the matter, the latter declared that her niece had suggested the subject to her directly after Mavis had left in the morning, a statement which Miss Meakin did not appear to overhear. Mrs Scatchard showed Mavis a clean, homely little room.
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