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Plaistow was going at a prodigious speed, but they could stop revolving without any warning, and then she stood still. Just when a collision with Miss Mapp seemed imminent, she came to a dead halt. It was as well to be quite certain that she was going to the Poppits, and Miss Mapp forgave and forgot about the worsted until she had found out.
Plaistow if she did not find the super-tax a grievous burden on "our little incomes." ... Miss Mapp had drawn in her breath sharply, as if in pain, and after a few gasps turned the conversation.... Worst of all, perhaps, because more recent, was the fact that Mrs.
'Much the same as usual. I think she has borne the first of the cold weather better than she did last year. 'I do so wish that I knew her. 'Perhaps you will some day. But I don't suppose that you ever will. 'Why not? 'It's not likely that you'll ever come to Plaistow now and Mary never leaves it except to go to my uncle's.
But the address of this letter was written in a pretty, small, female hand, very careful in the perfection of every letter, and very neat in every stroke. It was from Mary Briton, between whom and Clara there had never hitherto been occasion for correspondence. The letter was as follows: 'Plaistow Hall, April, 186 . 'My Dear Cousin Clara,
Godiva Plaistow had taken off her cloud for purposes of mastication, but wound it tightly round her head again as soon as she had eaten as much as she could manage. This had to be done on one side of her mouth, or with the front teeth in the nibbling manner of a rabbit.
'I've a deal of stock and all that sort of thing at Plaistow, and couldn't very well leave it, even if I wished it, he said. 'You've pretty good shooting too, I suppose, said Aylmer. 'As far as partridges go I'll back it against most properties of the same extent in any county. 'I'm too busy a man myself, said the captain, 'to do much at partridges. We think more of pheasants down with us.
You told me just now that I was a hypocrite for not telling you of my letter, and now you are angry with me because I have shown it you. 'I am not angry. I think you have been quite right to show it me. I don't know how else you could have acted upon it. 'But I do not mean to act upon it. I shall not go to Plaistow. There are two reasons against it, each sufficient.
'I should be so glad to go there if I could, she said, with that special hypocrisy which belongs to women, and is allowed to them; 'but, of course, I cannot leave papa in his present state. 'And if you did leave him you would not go to Plaistow. 'Not unless you and Mary asked me. 'And you wouldn't if we did. How could you? 'What do you mean, Will?
In the summer of 1844 she attended her beloved meeting at Plaistow once more. She had been so long in declining health, that meeting with the associates of former years, for worship, had been of necessity an enjoyment altogether out of the question.
Plaistow approached, the more invisible she became to Miss Mapp's eye, and when she was within saluting distance had vanished altogether. Simultaneously Miss Poppit came out of the stationer's in the High Street. Mrs. Plaistow turned the corner below Miss Mapp's window, and went bobbing along down the steep hill.
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