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The next evening Jack Tosswill drew Radmore aside. "Look here," he said awkwardly, "I wonder if you'd kindly wait a bit after the others have gone to bed? I want to ask you something, Godfrey." "Of course I will, old chap." Radmore looked hard into the young man's moody, troubled face, and came to a certain conclusion.
Tosswill." She was so surprised, so taken aback that for a moment she said nothing. At last she answered very quietly: "Tell Mr. Radmore that Mrs. Tosswill is here waiting on the 'phone."
At the end of their little chat, however, he had said something which had made her feel rather uncomfortable: "I was wondering, ma'am, whether Major Radmore might perhaps be inclined for a little speculation? I wouldn't mind paying, say, up to ten per cent, if 'e'd oblige me with a loan of five hundred pounds." She had been astonished at the suggestion astonished and unpleasantly taken aback.
The absurd suspicion of his father filled him with angry hurt disgust. Why only yesterday the plan of the village clubhouse had come from the architect! And then that extraordinary disconcerting hint about his godfather? Godfrey Radmore belonged in Timmy's imagination, first to himself, secondly to his parents, and then, in a much less close way, to the rest of the Tosswill family.
Rosamund's got a lovely one." "Why hasn't Betty got one?" "Because they're so expensive," said Timmy simply. He went on, "When I've got lots of money, I shall give Betty heaps of beautiful clothes; but only one very plain dress apiece to Rosamund and Dolly." "Betty! You ought to have a motor bonnet," called out Radmore as he came up to the car.
Of course you can bring the cat if you feel like it, but I shouldn't if I were you." "I'll only take her in for a minute." Timmy felt just a little sorry Radmore had refused to bring Puff along, for he was well aware that a cat is never so fierce as when she imagines she is defending her young. They went off together, Radmore in front, Timmy, hugging Josephine, behind.
She swayed a little towards him; dropping her hand, he put out his arms in another moment, what she felt sure such a man as Radmore would have regarded as irreparable would have happened, had not the door just behind them burst open.
Crofton, telling her the date of his return, and now almost without his knowing how and why they had become intimate, meeting almost daily, lunching or dining together incessantly, Radmore naturally gratified at the admiration his lovely companion she had grown even prettier since he had last seen her obviously excited.
And, as so often happens to a man who had begun by losing what little he had owing to folly and extravagance, Godfrey Radmore, though exceptionally generous and kindly, now lived well within his means, and had, if anything, increased his already big share of this world's goods.
"Timmy thinks he put it in here one day after coming back from the chemist's at Guildford." She looked flushed, and decidedly cross, as she went on: "No one's taught Timmy to put things in their proper place, as we were taught to do, when we were children!" Radmore felt amused. She certainly was very, very pretty, and did not look much more than a child herself.
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