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On the afternoon of the morrow we had another talk, and she told me that in the morning Miss Mavis had paid her a long visit. She knew nothing about anything, but her intentions were good and she was evidently in her own eyes conscientious and decorous. And Mrs. Nettlepoint concluded these remarks with the exclamation 'Poor young thing! 'You think she is a good deal to be pitied, then?
A little later Mrs. Nettlepoint said 'Well, if it's so pleasant there we had better go ourselves. So we passed to the front and in the other room met the two young people coming in from the balcony. I wondered in the light of subsequent events exactly how long they had been sitting there together.
"Yes, but she 'squirmed' for her," said Mrs. Nettlepoint. "Ah if you know it I may confess she has told me as much." My friend stared. "Told you? There's one of the things they do!" "Well, it was only a word. Won't you let me know whether you do think her a flirt?" "Try her yourself that's better than asking another woman; especially as you pretend to study folk."
"I put it to your mother that you ought to go to bed." "You had better do that yourself!" he replied. This time he walked off, and I reflected rather dolefully that the only clear result of my undertaking would probably have been to make it vivid to him that she was in love with him. Mrs. Nettlepoint came up as she had announced, but the day was half over: it was nearly three o'clock.
"And do you consider the statement valuable?" I asked, laughing out. "You had better ask your young friend herself." Mrs. Nettlepoint stared. "I couldn't do that." On which I was the more amused that I had to explain I was only amused. "What does it signify now?" "I thought you thought everything signified. You were so full," she cried, "of signification!"
Nettlepoint, who would doubtless soon come back. "Well, she won't know me I guess she hasn't ever heard much about me," the good lady said; "but I've come from Mrs. Allen and I guess that will make it all right. I presume you know Mrs. Allen?" I was unacquainted with this influential personage, but I assented vaguely to the proposition. Mrs. When at last Mrs.
Nettlepoint." "Ah very little. He's very considerably my junior, you see." She had a fresh pause, as if almost again for my elegance; but she went on: "He's younger than me too." I don't know what effect of the comic there could have been in it, but the turn was unexpected and it made me laugh.
Nettlepoint; "when it was you who tried to put into my head yesterday that she had asked him to come." "Yes, but in good faith." "What do you mean, in such a case, by that?" "Why, as girls of that sort do.
Jasper asks of me," she went on, "why he should mind her being talked about if she doesn't mind it herself." "I'll tell him why," I replied; and Mrs. Nettlepoint said she should be exceedingly obliged to me and repeated that she would indeed take the field. I looked for Jasper above that same evening, but circumstances didn't favour my quest.
'That's exactly what I said to Jasper this morning. 'And what did he say? 'He only looked innocent, as if he thought I meant a fog or a storm. 'Heaven forbid it isn't that! I shall never be good-natured again, Mrs. Nettlepoint went on; 'never have a girl put upon me that way. You always pay for it, there are always tiresome complications. What I am afraid of is after we get there.
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