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One of the ladies, the prettiest and youngest, with yellow hair under her gray motor-bonnet, said they weren't trees but people either nymphs or witches and the rest of the party humoured her, talking nonsense about Greece and goddesses. He thought the pleasure of a motor trip was "going some"; but his passengers seemed to have other ideas.
The two Americans were introduced to the Indian royalty, and Carleton, not too eagerly, had just begun to explain the features of his Flying Fish, when the big blue car brought Miss Grant back. At sight of Mary in a newly bought motor-bonnet, the Maharajah's eyes lit up. He had seen her the night before at the Casino, and had started the applause after her first sensational win.
"While I sit behind with Cinders?" he said. "Thanks very much, but I'd rather not. Do you think we want Cinders, by the way?" She opened her eyes wide in astonishment. Her motor-bonnet gave her a very babyish appearance. She hugged her favourite to her as she might have hugged a doll. "Of course we want Cinders! Why, he has been looking forward to it for ever so long.
Naturally, when the invitation came, he did not object. You'd have laughed if you could have seen her face when he smiled with apparent benevolent delight upon the suggestion. The sight would have repaid you for many a snub, my poor love-sick swain! That was where matters stood till your telegram came, a few minutes ago. But your wire set another bee humming in my motor-bonnet.
Vanno looked back, and saw a biplane on wheels, fitted with a kind of float. It was moving out of the hangar, down an inclined plane that bridged the beach as far as the water's edge. In the aviator's seat sat Dick, and behind him the red motor-bonnet was decorative as a flower. She was going with Carleton!
He's " Hall stopped short, considering the advantages of prevarication. "I wanted to see him," testily. "He said he would give me a particular address to-night. Why is he in such a hurry?" "It wasn't Dick who brought me." She took off her motor-bonnet and threw it on the sofa, running her hands through her bright hair, and rubbing her cheeks, which were a little cold.
"Whether I buy this place depends on you," he said obstinately. "Well, then, if I'm to decide, I say buy it!" She turned and smiled at him a little tremulously, keeping her head well down her face shadowed by the deep brim of her motor-bonnet. More and more was this like a scene out of a dream to Betty Tosswill.
Noticing a group round Carleton's hangar on the beach, he drew nearer, and to his astonishment saw Mary in a long coat of moleskin, and a little red motor-bonnet, surrounded by five men, one of them the somewhat notorious Maharajah of Indorwana.
Mother and son walked on into the scullery to find Betty there, boiling some water over a spirit lamp. "Betty? How very delightful you look!" her step-mother exclaimed. "Just like an old picture, child! Wherever did you get that charming motor-bonnet?" And then Timmy chipped in: "I thought of it," he said triumphantly; "it was my idea, Mum, but Godfrey paid for it.
Where are you going?" Angela began to laugh, and could not stop laughing. Nick, seeing this, and seeing that she looked a schoolgirl of sixteen in her little motor-bonnet, ventured to laugh too. "I was taking to the desert," she said. "But I wanted to go to Riverside. Is is this the same old story?" She could not put her meaning more plainly, because of Mr.
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