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Updated: June 5, 2025
'Eight and forty year come next Christmas have Patty and I lived together here, and never a year have we been behind our rent since father died; but it have been done by downright hard labour. And if you and your people want new-laid eggs, or fresh spring chickens, or honey from the comb, why, 'tis Patty that will supply you, as also milk and butter from an Alderney cow.
She greeted her uncle and aunt without much enthusiasm, gave Patty her cheek to kiss, and did not seem particularly delighted at having been called to speak to them. "I expected we should have seen you before, dear," said Mrs. Hirst. "I felt quite unhappy at the idea of leaving Patty alone, but now you are here to show her the ways of The Priory, I'm sure she'll be all right.
"Yes, dear," said her aunt, kissing her happy, surprised little face, "and I hope you will often enjoy it. I want you to be a happy Patty during your stay with us." "I am happy already," said Patty, as they went back into her room, "in such a lovely home, and among such lovely people." "May I come in?" said Marian, tapping at the open door. "Mother mine, are you going to monopolize our Patty?
"Across the Seine from what?" "Why, just across. On the other side, you know. Of course I don't know across from what, because I've never been to Paris; but everybody who has lived there always just says 'across the Seine, and everybody knows at once where they mean. You'll know all right after you've lived there a little while." "Marian, you're a wonder," declared Patty.
He grew a little angry at this thrust, but she continued to look at him quietly, unaware that she was impertinent. "I often have business, Hulda, with Joe and Patty; negroes are very high, and we must buy them where they are to be had. But a deepening religious interest in you often attracts me here." "Why religious as well as conservative, sir?"
And at the present day, I'd rather have fun with Ken or Roger, just talking foolishness, than to discourse with this wise professor I'm talking about. But of course, I wouldn't marry Ken or Roger even if they wanted me to, which they don't." "Oh, yes, they do, Patty; everybody wants to marry you." "Don't be a goose, Mona; you know perfectly well that Roger is over head and ears in love with you.
If she had seen the necklace alone she would have been anxious, indeed, for it would have meant that the girl, urged on by ungoverned desire for the ornament, had accepted present from one who should not have given it to her secretly; but the wedding-ring meant some-thing different for Patty, something more, something certain, something unescapable, for good or ill.
"But, Marian," pleaded Patty, seeing that resistance was useless, "I've such a lot of things to do, and the girls will be here before I get them all done." "Let them come," said the hard-hearted Marian, "it won't hurt them a bit, and you've got enough things done now to feed the Russian army." "But they're not finished," said Patty, "and they'll spoil standing."
Brother Fred was the stubbornest boy I ever saw. But when I told him so, he said it was only firmness of character." "I think that's what it is with papa," said Patty, loyally, "but I've often heard him say that I used to be very stubborn when I was little."
"And do I not?" a note of strong passion in his voice. "I shall tear it down, if I live. Do not ask me anything more about it. Has Dick been over to-day?" "He telephoned that he would be over after dinner. He wants you to go to the speech-making to-night." Patty rose from her seat at the table. "Patty," said John, rather surprised at his discovery, "you are almost a woman!"
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