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They could forgive her later or never "Norma, aren't you naughty?" Caroline had interrupted her thoughts, and had slipped a hand through her arm. "Buoso is going to sing do come in! My dear, you know that last hand? Well, we made it !" The next two days were the slowest, the hardest, the bitterest of Norma's life.
"An' she said," Mary Carew took it up, "as how Norma's gettin' old, and 'll be dropped afore long from the Chorus, an' she offered her, she did, in this very room, a' here before me, to buy out a Costumer as is leavin' the business, an' start Norma in for herself, along of her knowin' how to run a business such as that."
It was not long before Kennedy and I also fell under the spell of Norma's presence and personality. We hurried through breakfast and lost no time in accepting Everson's invitation to join him, with the rest, in the little power-boat on a visit to the trawler. It was Dominick who took upon himself the task of explaining to us the mysteries of treasure-hunting as we saw them.
It was often in Norma's power to distract Alice's attention from the fact that Miss Slater was a little late in returning from her walk, or she would make it a point to order for the invalid something that Miss Slater had forgotten.
But as the months went by, and Norma began to realize that Miss Slater's position was not only far from the ideally beautiful one it had seemed at first, but that the homely, elderly, good-natured woman was actually putting herself to some pains to make Norma's own life in the Liggett house more comfortable than it might have been, she had come genuinely to admire Alice's attendant, and now they were fast friends.
The child, nodding on Norma's knee like a rosy little Mandarin, caught the sacred name. "I p'ay the Lord mine and Joey's and eve'ybody's soul to keep," she murmured with drowsy effort, thinking C'rew was urging her to say the little prayer Miss Ruth had taught her. "He will, He will," said Mary Carew with awed emphasis, "if ever I doubted it before, Norma, I know now He will.
Annie saw this immediately, and when all the families were settled in town again, she decided to take Norma's social training in hand, as she had done Leslie's, and make sure that no undesirable cockle was sown among the family fields.
Norma's and that of Miss Slater, Alice's nurse, were joined by a bathroom; Chris had his own splendid dressing-room and bath, fitted, like his bedroom, with rugs and chests and highboys worthy of a museum. "Aren't you going to be late, Chris?" Norma asked, when they met at the top of the stairs.
But I confess that it was rather a surprise to find her here, one of the family ! After all, we Melroses have always rather prided ourselves on standing together, haven't we? If she wants to wear black for Grandma, why, it makes no difference to me " "I suppose the will could be broken without any notoriety, Chris?" Annie asked, in an undertone. Norma's heart turned sick.
"And that baby " Chris began. "Yes. That was Norma!" Mrs. Melrose said. "It is all Norma's, the whole thing and you must take care that she gets it, Chris. I even my will, dear, only gives Norma the Melrose Building and some bonds. But those are for Leslie, now, all the rest the whole estate goes to Theodore's child Norma. You must forgive me if I did it all wrong. I meant it for the best.
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