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"Sky and sun above, sun and sky below! with trimmings of liquid emerald and sapphire, shot with white and gold. Meg, my child, this is a long way from No. 1 Melgrave Square." "A long, long way!" assented Margaret thoughtfully. And then, to take advantage of her companion's comparative soberness through the stirring of her feelings, "Hennie, do you think we ought to stop?"
Then, either she had never received it, or, for some good reason or other, she was unable to reply. He went down to Melgrave Square to make sure that No. 1 was still there. Possibly he might come across Margaret in the neighbourhood. If he did he would know at a glance if she had received his letter. But No. 1 offered him no explanations.
The callous passage of the last post, after knocking cheerfully at every door but his own, left him wondering and desperate. Could he by any possibility have addressed his letter wrongly? It was not easy to make a mistake in No. 1 Melgrave Square. Could it have gone astray? The Post Office was abominably careless at times.
When Margaret Brandt was at home, however, he was much at his father's house in Melgrave Square. He made no pretence to unco' guidness whatever. He subscribed to nothing outside the House, with two exceptions the Dogs' Home at Battersea, and the Home of Rest for Aged Horses at Acton signs of grace both these offerings, I take it!
"It's horrible," said Miss Penny emphatically. "Safe as London Bridge, if you'll only believe it. It's a good four feet wide. The school children used to trot over when it was not more than two and a half." "And none of them fell over?" "Never a one. Why should they?" "Meg, my dear," said Miss Penny, with a sudden flash of incongruity," this is truly a very great change from Melgrave Square."
"Oh, Charles is excellent company. If we didn't see him now and again the house would be like a tomb. But he's not there all the time, and we have relapses. He has his own rooms elsewhere, you know. And I'm really not surprised. It taxes even him to lighten the deadly dulness of Melgrave Square." "It must be a great comfort to Mrs. Pixley to have you with her, my dear."
When one has not the habit of readily making new friendships one clings the more firmly to those already made. Sincerely yours, That letter he dropped into the Pixley letterbox himself that night, and so was assured of its delivery. But two days passed in waning hope, and the afternoon of the third found him on the doorstep of No. 1 Melgrave Square. "Miss Brandt?"
"I did not. I devoutly wish you were both safe home in the Rue Lucas." "All in good time. Meanwhile, we might be worse off, and this tea is going to be excellent. Margaret, my child, do you know that tea under these conditions is infinitely preferable to tea in Melgrave Square, under any conditions whatsoever?" "It is certainly a change," said Margaret. "And a very decided improvement.
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