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Phillipa had been considering. "Girls let's go," she exclaimed. "Mrs. Barrington didn't actually forbid it. She said: 'Girls I hope none of you will be foolish enough to spend your money on such nonsense. Those people are generally impostors. I'd like to have a peep into the future. There's a young man I am interested in. Now, if he's all fair and square and means business "
She could not allow him to leave. Mere waste of words; Harold was off next morning to Harbridge, and Phillipa reported progress to her co-conspirator. "It promises well," said Gilly. "I may be able to muzzle that scoundrel after all."
There was something in his tone which made Phillipa look at him hard. Was it possible that he contemplated any terrible wickedness? The mere apprehension made her blood run cold. "O Gilly, swear to me that you will not harbour evil thoughts, that you will put aside the devil who is prompting and luring you to some awful crime!" "Psha, Phillipa, you ought to have gone into the Church.
Where was Phillipa? Very late; she might have dressed earlier. A servant was sent to call her, and Phillipa, hurrying down, met Gilly on the upper floor coming out of Mrs. Purling's bedroom. "What have you been doing there?" she asked. "Mrs. Purling wanted a fan," said Gilly readily. She might want one fan, but hardly two; and had Phillipa been less flurried she might have noticed that Mrs.
"See here," began Phillipa, "that girl has puzzled me with an elusive resemblance to somebody, Zay, it really is you. Her hair and eyes are darker, she's larger every way, she is not such a peerless maid " "I shouldn't feel complimented by that! Oh the idea! A girl from well somewhere from the wild and woolly west "
"This is Miss Fanshawe," said the heiress, with much emphasis "the Honourable Miss Fanshawe." "The Honourable Miss Fanshawe is only a very humble personage, not at all deserving high-sounding titles," said the young lady for herself. "My name is Phillipa to my friends, and as such I count you, dear Mrs. Purling; perhaps some day I may be allowed to say the same of your son."
Barrington who thought it very judicious. She said she had several gentlemen to add. Then there was a time about the frocks. Miss Nevins unpacked two party gowns that had remained in her trunk when it was taken up stairs. A pretty rather simple white cluna silk and a pink satin. "Oh, the satin is altogether too ornate, too really old," declared Phillipa. "But it's so much prettier," longingly.
"You live at free quarters, you have no expenses and ought to have no debts." "Have you no debts, pray?" "None that you are ignorant of." "Look here, Phillipa; listen to me. I spend what I please, how I please. I shall give no account of it to you, nor to any one else in the world." "It is not necessary. I had rather not be told.
It shall be sifted to the bottom, and the guilty called to serious account." But the mystery was never solved. If Phillipa had in her heart misgivings, she kept her suspicions to herself; no one accused her; there seemed explanation for her cowed and trembling manner in Gilly's downfall and disgrace.
Phillipa was quivering in every nerve. But she must control Louie. "Well, we shouldn't have gone there. I think she ought not have let us in but just said she couldn't admit customers. Now, what are you going to do?" "I I what can I do? I s'pose I'll have scarlet fever " "You can give the thing away and be sent home in disgrace. You'll lose your watch and perhaps not get in another school.
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