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She thought of asking the landlady. Virginia's return aroused her. She went upstairs with her sister into the double-bedded room which they occupied. 'What have you heard? 'He went there. He told them everything. 'How did Miss Nunn look? How did she speak? 'Oh, she was very, very distant, lamented Virginia. 'I don't quite know why she sent for me.
Miss Nunn was in her severest mood; I think she didn't smile once through the evening. I will confess to you I wrote her a letter whilst I was abroad, and it offended her, I suppose. 'I don't think you can always judge of her thoughts by her face. 'Perhaps not. But I have studied her face so often and so closely. For all that, she is more a mystery to me than any woman I have ever known.
Several large bookcases, a well-equipped writing-table, and kindred objects, indicated that the occupant of the house was studious; the numerous bunches of cut flowers, which agreeably scented the air, seemed to prove the student was a woman. Miss Nunn entered. Younger only by a year or two than Virginia, she was yet far from presenting any sorrowful image of a person on the way to old-maidenhood.
As a result of what passed there, a day or two saw the beginning of the long-contemplated removal to Clevedon. Widdowson found a lodging in the neighbourhood of his old home; he had engaged never to cross the bounds of Somerset until he received his wife's permission. As soon as this compact was established Monica wrote to Miss Nunn. A short submissive letter.
"You mean that you will cut us if we don't. I never quarrel in the tropics. Besides, I have buried too many of my old friends! I don't approve, but I shall be interested, and my morals are as pure and solid as my new teeth. If you can marry him to Mary Denbigh and leave her on the island " "And you, Emily?" None had had more experience in yielding gracefully to social tyrants than Mrs. Nunn.
And Monica related the agreement that had been arrived at. When she spoke of the time that must elapse before she would make a confession to her husband, it again seemed to her that Miss Nunn understood. 'There is a reason why I consent to be supported by him, she continued. 'If it were true that I had sinned as he suspects I would rather kill myself than pretend still to be his wife.
But suppose she still meets me with the remark that things are just as they were that nothing has been explained? 'I can't discuss your relations with Miss Nunn. 'However, you defend her original action. Be so good as to admit that I can't go to Mrs. Widdowson and request her to publish a statement that I have never 'I shall admit nothing, interrupted Miss Barfoot rather tartily.
She thought with envy of the shop-girls in Walworth Road; wished herself back there. What unspeakable folly she had committed! And how true was everything she had heard from Rhoda Nunn on the subject of marriage! The next day Widdowson resorted to an expedient which he had once before tried in like circumstances.
And on this very account, precisely because she was deceiving herself as to her state of mind, she prolonged the painful situation. She said to herself that Rhoda had behaved so wrongly that displeasure was justified, that to make up the quarrel at once would be unwise, for Miss Nunn needed a little discipline.
'Miss Madden is better to-day, I hope? 'Alice? Not much, I'm sorry to say. 'Will you tell me something more about the "experience" you are getting? For instance, what time is given you for meals? Rhoda Nunn was not the person to manufacture light gossip when a matter of the gravest interest waited for discussion.
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