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Doing so, Everard examined Miss Nunn's figure, which in its way was strong and shapely as his own. A motion of his lips indicated amused approval, but at once he commanded himself, and entered the dining-room with exemplary gravity. Naturally, he sat opposite Rhoda, and his eyes often skimmed her face; when she spoke, which was very seldom, he gazed at her with close attention.
I want to help in that to train the reserve. 'But married woman are not idle, protested Monica earnestly. 'Not all of them. Some cook and rock cradles. Again Miss Nunn's mood changed. She laughed the subject away, and abruptly began to talk of old days down in Somerset, of rambles about Cheddar Cliffs, or at Glastonbury, or on the Quantocks.
Perhaps she took herself so very seriously that the mere suspicion of banter in his talk had moved her to grave resentment. Between these various conjectures he wavered whilst talking with Mary. But he did not so much as mention Miss Nunn's name. Some ten days went by, and he paid a call at the hour sanctioned by society, five in the afternoon; it being Saturday.
To the servant who opened she could only speak Miss Nunn's name; fortunately instructions had been given, and she was straightway led to the library. Here she waited for nearly five minutes. Was Rhoda doing this on purpose? Her face, when at length she entered, made it seem probable', a cold dignity, only not offensive haughtiness, appeared in her bearing.
She saw that Rhoda had begun to mistrust her, to think that she was elaborating falsehoods. The burdensome silence was broken by Miss Nunn's saying repellently, 'I haven't asked for your confidence, remember. 'No and if you try to imagine what it means for me to be speaking like this I am not shameless. I have suffered a great deal before I could bring myself to come here and tell you.
"I called I wanted I I MIGHT I speak to you for just one minute, Mr Breen?" She had lived beside him long enough to know his name, also his occupation. The Breens were drapers. Their shop in the city was not to be compared with Buckley & Nunn's or Robertson & Moffat's, but it was a good shop in its way, as this good home of the proprietors testified.
I want to put myself right in your thoughts. I have told no one else; I shall be easier in mind if you will hear me. My husband will know everything before very long but perhaps I shall not be alive Something in Miss Nunn's face suggested to Monica that her meaning was understood. Perhaps, notwithstanding her denial, Virginia had told more when she was here than she had permission to make known.
Another visitor arrived, a lady named Cosgrove, who settled herself as if for at least an hour. Worse than that, he heard her say to Rhoda, 'Oh, then do come and dine with us. Do, I beg! 'I will, with pleasure, was Miss Nunn's reply. 'Can you wait and take me with you? Useless to stay longer. As soon as the Widdowsons had departed he went up to Rhoda and silently offered his hand.
Nunn's invitations to pass a season in London, for she lived an inner life which gave her an increasing distaste for realities. It was before the day when women, unimpelled by poverty or genius, flew to the ink-pot with their over-burdened imaginations.
'I have advised you to see Miss Nunn if she is willing. And there's nothing more to be said. 'Good. I will write to her. He did so, in the fewest possible words, and received an answer of equal brevity. In accordance with permission granted, on the Monday evening he found himself once more in his cousin's drawing-room, sitting alone, waiting Miss Nunn's appearance.
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