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Don't let him think he can always be running away and coming back! 'No, never again, Edith had answered, with a laugh. Now they never spoke of the subject. It was a painful one to Mrs Ottley. Today that lady seemed inclined to detain Edith, and make her as Archie feared late for the rising of the curtain. 'You really like Madame Frabelle so much, dear? 'Really I do, said Edith.
Well, now we've found our way here broken the ice and that sort of thing we must often come and dine with them, mustn't we, Mrs Ottley? Can't we come again next week? 'Very sweet of you to ask us, I'm sure. 'Not at all; very jolly of us to turn up. The boot is on the other leg, or whatever the phrase is.
Her hair, parted in the middle, was arranged in the Madonna style in two thick natural waves each side of her face. She had none of the bustling self-confidence of the lady nurse, but was very gentle and diffident. Surely Aylmer must be in love with her, thought Edith. Then Miss Clay said, in her low voice: 'You are Mrs Ottley, aren't you? I knew you at once. 'Did you? How was that?
'I'll send you some papers about it, if you really take any interest. 'Thanks. Thanks, very much. Yes, do send them. 'Do you really think you would care to become a member, Mrs Ottley? 'Oh, yes; yes, I should think so. I always hated Oliver Cromwell. He looked doubtful. 'Yes, of course but that alone, I'm afraid, would hardly be ... you see there might be a revolution at any moment. 'I see.
Do you know, I have a very curious gift, Mr Ottley. I can always see in children what they're going to make a success of in life. Without boasting, I know you, Edith, are kind enough to believe that I'm an extraordinary judge of character. Oh, I've always been like that. I can't help it. I'll tell you now what you must make of your boy, she pursued. 'He is a born musician!
But he likes playing with them. He takes them to bed with him. It is as much as I can do to keep him from eating them. 'The angel! said Mrs Ottley. 'You must be careful about that, Edith, said Bruce solemnly. 'I understand red paint is poisonous. 'It won't hurt him, said old Mr Ottley, purely from a spirit of contradiction.
'Well, he was very clever, said Mrs Ottley defiantly. 'You'd hardly think so now perhaps, but the things that child used to say! 'Don't spoil Archie as his mother spoilt Bruce, said Mr. Ottley. 'Have you seen the new play at His Majesty's? asked Bruce. 'No, I haven't. I went to the theatre last year, said old Mr Ottley. 'I haven't heaps of money to spend on superfluous amusements.
Living alone as you do, it certainly is not the right thing for you to be seen anywhere without Miss Yeo. Hyacinth became crimson. 'On what grounds did Mr Ottley find fault with anything I do? 'Merely general grounds, my dear. A very proper dislike to the flighty behaviour of the girls of the present day. As he tells me, he feels it as a father 'Father! He has only a little boy of two.
Her name was Miss Radford, and she was thirty-eight. She had very red cheeks, and curly black hair. She had screamed with laughter from disappointment at hearing Mrs Ottley was out; and shrieked at hearing that Madame Frabelle had been deputed to receive them in her place. Mrs Mitchell had whispered that she was a most interesting person, and Madame Frabelle thought she certainly was.
'And what do you intend the boy to be when he grows up? asked old Mr Ottley. 'Are you going to make him a useful member of society, or a Foreign Office clerk? His father gave a slight snort. 'Be very careful, said Mrs Ottley to Edith, 'not to let the darling catch cold in his perambulator this weather. Spring is so treacherous! 'Does he seem to show any particular bent for anything?
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