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He watched Picotee and her brother off the premises, and the pair went on their way towards Exonbury Crescent, very few words passing between them. Picotee's thoughts had turned to the proposed visit to Knollsea, and Joey was sulky under disappointment and the blank of thwarted purposes.
That was Lord Mountclere's arrangement with Ethelberta. He is extremely anxious that I should marry well. 'That's unfortunate. A marriage with me will hardly be considered well. 'O yes, it will, said Picotee quickly, and then looked frightened.
Picotee, being a presentable girl, and decidedly finer-natured than her sisters below stairs, was allowed to sit occasionally with Ethelberta in the afternoon, when the teaching of the little ones had been done for the day; and thus she had an opportunity of observing Ethelberta's emotional condition with reference to Christopher, which Picotee did with an interest that the elder sister was very far from suspecting.
'O when I had seen him once or twice. 'Goodness how quick you were! 'Yes if I am in the mind for loving I am not to be hindered by shortness of acquaintanceship. 'Nor I neither! sighed Picotee. 'Nor any other woman. We don't need to know a man well in order to love him. That's only necessary when we want to leave off. 'O Berta you don't believe that!
The collapse of his attachment under the test might, however, form the grand climax of such a play as this. The day was rather cold for the season, and Ethelberta sat by a fire; but the windows were open, and Picotee was amusing herself on the balcony outside.
'Shall I run round? said Picotee, 'and if he is not watching them we will go out. 'Very well, said her sister. The time of Picotee's absence seemed an age. Ethelberta heard the roar of another rocket, and still Picotee did not return. 'What can the girl be thinking of? she mused. . . . 'What a half-and-half policy mine has been!
Long read in the papers the account of your first evening, and afterwards I heard two ladies of our committee talking about it; but of course not one of them knew my personal interest in the discussion. Now will you, Ethelberta, think if I may not come: Do, there's a dear sister! I will do anything you set me about if I may only come. Your ever affectionate, PICOTEE.
They passed by the doors on tiptoe, and their mother upstairs being, according to Joey's account, in the midst of a nap, Picotee was unwilling to disturb her; so they went down at once to the kitchen, when forward rushed Gwendoline the cook, flourishing her floury hands, and Cornelia the housemaid, dancing over her brush; and these having welcomed and made Picotee comfortable, who should ring the area-bell, and be admitted down the steps, but Sol and Dan.
The irate lover stated that he would not be made a fool of any longer: under any circumstances he meant to come that self-same afternoon, and should decidedly expect her to see him. 'I will not see him! said Ethelberta. 'Why did he not call last night? 'Because you told him not to, said Picotee. 'Good gracious, as if a woman's words are to be translated as literally as Homer!
Long before this time Picotee had begun to be anxious to get home again, but Menlove seemed particularly to desire her company, and pressed her to sit awhile, telling her young friend, by way of entertainment, of various extraordinary love adventures in which she had figured as heroine when travelling on the Continent.
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