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On her head she had an antique-looking cap, made of black lace and rusty black velvet, and ornamented with queer little devices of colored beads. She was delighted to see Primrose, and took her at once into her little sitting-room. "Now my dear, you will stay and have dinner with me. You don't mind having no meat, dear. My middle-day meal to-day consists of a salad and a rice soufflée.
'Oh, Prim, you dear little thing, cried both elder brother and sister, as they thought with a sort of pang of the child's opinion of grown-up impeccability. 'Harry is grown up more, put in Fergus; 'why don't you ask him? 'Because I know, said Primrose, with a pretty shyness, and as they pressed her, she whispered, 'He is going to be a clergyman.
There is no month in the year when some special plant does not bloom: the Coltsfoot there opens its fragrant flowers from December to February; the yellow-flowered Hellebore, and its cousin, the sacred Christmas Rose of Glastonbury, extend from January to March; and the Snowdrop and Primrose often come before the first of February.
We drove at a foot's pace, our horse finding his own path. When we left the forest, the light had all gone except for some almost imperceptible touches of primrose on the eastern horns. It was a moonless night, but the sky was alive with stars, and now and then one fell.
It was quite early in the morning, a hail shower lying all around, though the sky was a deep sapphire blue, with the wan ghost of the moon lingering on the horizon, and the atmosphere bitter cold. The breakfast was late at the Ewes, owing to Mr. Crawfurd's delicate health, and because Mrs. Crawfurd had her fancies like Mrs. Primrose.
The day brightened, though still with a curious pallor that was more glare than sunlight, and both girls put on cool muslin dresses, or as cool as the long full skirts would allow of their being. Vassie was in blue, Phoebe in pink, Judy in primrose, while Blanche was white even to her shady hat.
'If you go off to people I should say, sometimes, that could not be. 'So should I, said Rollo. 'Why? said Primrose. 'I cannot find in my consciousness, or memory, any corroboration of your theory. 'I think I can in mine. Sometimes, at least. 'Those are not my times, said Rollo. 'And I don't know but you are right, too, said Primrose, musing.
While Primrose was waiting for Uncle James in the morning she ran out to the barn. "Andrew, I am going. It hath been very pleasant, and I hoped thou would have taken me. Andrew" with a strange, new hesitation "is it is it wrong to kiss thee?" She looked up out of such clear honest eyes in all their sweet guilelessness that he took the fair face between his hands and kissed it again.
He arose and blustered up and down the room. "You haven't a mathematical head," he was saying for the third time when a sharp rap upon the door interrupted. Dr. Primrose, looking very much relieved, opened it. Miss Gordon turned away to the window to hide the rising tears. There was a short, hurried conversation at the door, and the teacher turned to his victim.
"She may in the end consent to some scheme for perfecting her education, but I'm quite sure she will not go, nor allow her sisters to go to Shortlands to live a life of simple luxury. I am sorry for you, Mrs. Ellsworthy, but I know Primrose will never consent to that." "I don't think you are sorry for me, Arthur," answered the pretty little lady.
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