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"I'm so well," said Alice, emphatically, with a sort of solemn thankfulness, "that I don't know myself! Whether it was saving myself the strain of moving to Newport last summer, or what, I don't know. But I haven't been so well for years!" Norma's heart contracted with sudden pity. Alice had never employed these gallant falsehoods before.
Norma's got a perfectly wonderful cloak made of a dark green felt piano cover." Kit helped her select a dull violet goods, with white underslip that showed through the slashes in the sleeves. Anne had been hovering over an old rose that absolutely killed any glint of color in her light brown hair. "Never, never," warned Kit, "let old rose come near you, if you've got freckles or sandy hair.
Rose's clear forehead clouded faintly, and Norma hastened to apologize. "Well, my dear, that's what she said," she remarked, laughingly, with quick fingers on Rose's hand. "It's sad that Mrs. Chris Liggett didn't have just one, before her accident. It would make such a difference in her life," Rose mused, with her eyes fixed thoughtfully on Norma's face.
"And I thought that my bad boy was coming in early August," she added, of the baby, "or I would have gone first. Try to come oftener, Norma," she pleaded, "for we all love you so!" And again, Norma's manner worried her. What was there in the sisterly little speech to bring the tears again to Norma's eyes? "I know you do, Rosy," Norma said, very low.
Norma's wrap was tossed aside, and she revolved in all her glory, waving her fan at arm's length, pleasantly conscious of Wolf's utter stupefaction, and conscious, too, a little less pleasantly, that Aunt Kate's maternal eye did not agree with Aunt Annie's in the matter of décolletage.
And as if the phrase suggested it, he went on to test Norma's French. Norma was never self-conscious with him, and in a few seconds he and Alice were laughing at her earnest absurdities.
Norma had accepted a certain almost-new hat from Leslie just before the wedding, and Alice, burning with her secret suspicion as to Norma's parentage, and in the first flush of her affection for the girl, had told Norma that in her opinion Leslie should not have offered it. It was not for Norma to take any patronage from her cousin, Alice said to herself.
Norma's happiest times had been when she arose early, at perhaps seven, and after dressing noiselessly in their little bathroom, crept upstairs without waking Caroline. Sunshine would be flooding the ocean, or perhaps the vessel would be nosing her way through a luminous fog but it was always beautiful. The decks, drying in the soft air, would be ordered, inviting, deserted.
Still, it certainly wasn't my fault." "I'm thankful there's no one here at the Hall she could lay suspicion upon," frowned Jane. "Norma's beyond reach of injustice now. I'd rather hope it was a real loss than a camouflage." "Well, she might say that I had stolen it. Wouldn't that be a glorious revenge?" Judith jokingly inquired. "Don't be so ridiculous, Judy Stearns."
The insignificant inquiry did not seem to gain much by repetition, and Norma's cheeks burned in shame when Leslie followed it by a blank little pause. "Oh everyone's fine. The baby wasn't well, but she's all right now." Another slight pause, then Norma said: "She must be adorable I'd like to see her." "She's not here now," Leslie answered, quickly. "I've been shopping," Norma said.
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