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Updated: May 13, 2025
That season some friends of the Benyons brought their boys to stay at Rainharbour for the holidays, and Beth varied her other pursuits by rambling about with them, Lady Benyon having seen to it that she made their acquaintance legitimately, for the old lady shrewdly suspected that Beth was already beginning to attract attention.
He wore a dark-blue suit, with a shirt of wonderful whiteness, and Beth could not help noticing how altogether well-dressed he was too well-dressed for climbing on the rocks. She noticed his dress particularly, because well-dressed men were rare in Rainharbour. He was tall, with glossy black hair inclining to curl, slight whiskers and moustache, blue eyes, and a bright complexion.
Uncle James Patten sent a landau to meet his sister and her family at the station, on their arrival from Ireland. Mildred was the first to jump in. She took the best seat, and sat up stiff and straight. "I do love carriages and horses, mamma," she said, as they drove through Rainharbour, the little north-country seaside place which was henceforth to be their home.
From the time of their arrival in Rainharbour she lived three lives a day the life of lessons and coercion which was forced upon her, an altogether artificial and unsatisfactory life; the life she took up the moment she was free to act for herself; and a life of endless dreams, which mingled with the other two unwholesomely.
To fill up her empty days, she surrounded herself with a story, among the crowding incidents of which she lived, whatever she might be doing. She had a lover who frequented a wonderful dwelling on the other side of the headland that bounded Rainharbour bay on the north. He was rich, dark, handsome, a mysterious man, with horses and a yacht.
What do you think of him, Beth?" "I think he looks neat to the point of nattiness, which is finical in a man," Beth answered. "Ah, that is because you are not accustomed to well-dressed men," her mother assured her. "Here in Rainharbour you don't often see one." "I have been in London lately," Beth observed. "Beth," her mother began emphatically, "that is so like you!
He began to question her guardedly. "Do you know Rainharbour well?" he asked. "I live here," Beth answered. "Then I suppose you know every one in the place," he pursued. "Oh, no," she rejoined. "I know very few people, except my own, of course." "Which is considered the principal family here?" he asked. "The Benyon family is the biggest and the wickedest, I should think," she answered casually.
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