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"I asked what's Norma doing here isn't she overdoing her relationship a little?" Leslie said, languidly. Norma's face burned, she could hardly breathe as she waited. "Mama sent for her, for some reason," Annie answered, with a little drawl. "After all, she's a sort of cousin, isn't she?" Acton added. "Oh, don't jump on me for everything I say, Acton," Leslie said, angrily. "My goodness !"
To meet him once, twice, half-a-dozen times, even, was safe enough. But when each day of separation became for them both only an agony of waiting until the next day that should unite them, and when all Norma's self-control was not enough to keep her from the telephone summons that at least gave her the sound of his voice, then the world began to be cognizant that something was in the air.
Bates nor any of the girls were in evidence. The servant said nothing. "I believe they're all hiding on us!" said Nyoda, getting a sudden light on this apparently neglectful reception. "I know Norma's tricks of old. If we could only think of some way to turn the laugh on them!" The servant who had admitted them led the way to an inner room and opened a door, stepping aside to let them go first.
"Norma backed slowly and carefully away from the brute, which followed her, creeping deliberately after her as though it intended to make a sudden dart and sting her. "In spite of Norma's terror she looked furious, though she trembled in all her limbs. At length she slowly bared her terrible teeth, opened her great red jaws, hesitated took courage, and seized the beast in her mouth.
"She wants to see you, dear," she said to Leslie, whose first frightened tears had dried from bewilderment and curiosity, "and we must hurry on. Come, Norma, we'll say good-night!" "Good-night, Miss Melrose," Norma said. "Good-night," Leslie answered, hesitating over the name. Her wide babyish smile, the more appealing because of her wet lashes, made a sudden impression upon Norma's heart.
Children were playing in Norma's street, wrapped and muffled children, wild with joy to be out of doors again, and a tiny frail little moon was floating in the opal sky just above the grim line of roofs. Norma looked up at it, and the pure blowing air touched her hot face, and her heart sang with the sheer joy of living.
Norma said, turning scarlet, and wondering what eyes had seen it. "There was no envelope; a maid brought it to her, and Annie read it," Chris said. Norma's eyes were racing through it. "There are no names!" she said, thankfully. "It would have been a most unfortunate a a horrible thing, if there had been," Chris commented.
"I remember her Theodore's wife," Chris said, eager to help her. "And she was this girl's mother," Mrs. Melrose added, clasping Norma's fingers. "You understand that, Chris?" "Yes, darling we understand!" Norma said, with a nod to Chris that he was to humour her. But Chris looked only strangely troubled.
Again and again Rosa sang the familiar airs, trying to put soul into them, by imagining how she would feel if she were in Norma's position. Some of the emotions she knew by her own experience, and those she sang with her deepest feeling.
Gillespie had left his office, he was expected momentarily at his home, he should be given the message immediately. Nothing to do but wait. Suddenly Norma's heart jumped to her throat, began to hammer wildly. A man had come quietly in between her and Annie, and she heard the voice that echoed in her heart all day and all night. It was Chris.
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