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Updated: May 23, 2025
Nanda glanced at the clock. "Oh you've a margin yet." "But you don't want an interval for your thinking ?" "Now that I've seen you?" Nanda was already very obviously thoughtful. "I mean if you've an important decision to take." "Well," she returned, "seeing you HAS helped me." "Ah but at the same time worried you. Therefore " And he picked up his umbrella. Her eyes rested on its curious handle.
Longdon. "I told you a tremendous lot, didn't I? But I didn't tell you about that." His elder maintained, yet with a certain vagueness, the attitude of amiable enquiry. "About the a family?" "Well," Mitchy smiled, "about its ramifications. This young lady has a tremendous friendship and in short it's all very complicated." "My dear Nanda," said Vanderbank, "it's all very simple.
Oh we must each do our best. But when I hear from you," Mrs. Brook pursued, "that Nanda had ever permitted herself anything so dreadful as to wire to him, it comes over me afresh that I would have been the perfect one to deal with him if his detestation of me hadn't prevented." She was by this time also but on her feet before the fire, into which, like her husband, she gazed.
"And who are all the other best friends whom poor Nanda comes after?" "Well, there's my aunt, and Miss Merriman, and Gelsomina, and Dr. Beltram." "And who, please, is Miss Merriman?" "She's my governess, don't you know? but such a deliciously easy governess." "That, I suppose, is because she has such a deliciously easy pupil. And who is Gelsomina?" Mr. Longdon enquired.
Nanda hasn't mentioned to you whether or no she has heard?" "Absolutely not. But you don't suppose, I take it, that it was to pry into her affairs I called her in." Vanderbank, on this, lighted for the first time with a laugh. "'Called her in'? How I like your expressions!" "I do then, in spite of all," she eagerly asked, "remind you a little of the bon temps?
"She IS fond of him, thank God!" said Mrs. Brook. He was before her now with the air of a man who had suddenly determined on a great blind leap. "Do you know what he has done? He wants me so to marry her that he has proposed a definite basis." Mrs. Brook got straight up. "'Proposed'? To HER?" "No, I don't think he has said a word to Nanda in fact I'm sure that, very properly, he doesn't mean to.
I mean about your being the best friend I have." "Of course I do, and that's exactly why I said it. You see I'm not in the least delicate or graceful or shy about it I just come out with it and defy you to contradict me. Who, if I'm not the best, is a better one?" "Well," Nanda replied, "I feel since I've known Mr. Longdon that I've almost the sort of friend who makes every one else not count."
"The expression of Tishy's face comes precisely from our comparing it so unfavourably with that of her poor sister Carrie, who, though she isn't here to-night with the Cashmores amazing enough even as coming WITHOUT that! has so often shown us that an ame en peine, constantly tottering, but, as Nanda guarantees us, usually recovering, may look after all as beatific as a Dutch doll." Mrs.
"That's just what I mean." "Well, if you do," Nanda returned, "the explanation's a little conceited." "Oh I only made it," Vanderbank said, "in reference to his modesty." Beyond the lawn the house was before him, old, square, red-roofed, well assured of its right to the place it took up in the world.
Nanda looked at him with her cold kindness. "What nonsense you do talk!" "Your tone's sweet to me," he returned, "as showing that you don't think ME, either, too good for you. No one, remember, will take that for your excuse when the world some day sees me annihilated by your having put an end to our so harmless relations."
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