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Her little chin has grown quite pointed and her eyes are actually frightening," was an early observation. But girls who are going into galloping consumption cough and look hectic and are weaker day by day and she had no cough, nor was she hectic and, though it was known that Dr. Redcliff saw her frequently, she insisted that she was not ill and begged the Duchess to let her go on with her work.
Redcliff knows of the right remote sort of place for her. It is really quite settled. She will do as I advise her. She is very obedient." "Mamma," murmured Lady Lothwell who was furtively regarding Robin also and it must be confessed with a dewy eye "I suppose it is because I have Kathryn but I feel a sort of pull at my heart when I remember how the little thing bloomed only a few months ago!
She did not speak again until the Sabbath-day had begun. Then, at the very point where she had ceased, she recommenced. "It is a pity to let the sea in on the fertile fields of your young life," she said; "but this tide, it is not that that is now flowing in on the far-away beach of Redcliff.
Redcliff; she had only sat listening to him and feeling her eyes widening as she tried to follow and understand what he was saying in such a grave, low-toned cautious way as if he himself were almost afraid as he went on. What he said would once have been strange and wonderful, but now it was not, because wonder had gone out of the world.
"Since the morning Redcliff dropped his bomb I have not been able to think of much else," he said. "It was a bomb, I own. Neither you nor I had reason for a shadow of suspicion. My mind has a trick of dragging back to me a memory of a village girl who was left as as she is. She said her lover had married her but he went away and never came back.
"The old leisurely habit of observing details no longer exists. As Redcliff said in speaking of her and girls generally all the gates are thrown wide open." The Duchess was very silent for a space before she made her reply. "Yes." "You do not know her mother?" "No." "Two weeks ago she gave me something to reflect on.
She stopped and sat quite still, gazing before her as though into space. "She is very young. She has been absorbed in war work and living in a highly charged atmosphere for some time." Dr. Redcliff said presently, "If she knew the poor lad " "She did not really know him well, though they had met as children. They danced together that night and sat and talked in the conservatory.
His words brought back what she had heard Redcliff say to her earlier in the day the thing which had only struck her again to the earth. "It will have no father," she shuddered. "There is not even a grave." He put his hand on her shoulder he even tried to force her to lift her head. "It must have a father," he said, harshly. "Look at me. It must."
"Whatsoever he tells you don't be frightened. Don't think you are without friends. I will take care of you." "Thank you," she said. "I don't think anything would frighten me. Nothing seems frightening now." After which she went into the room where Dr. Redcliff was waiting for her. The Duchess sat alone and thought deeply. What she thought of chiefly was the Head of the House of Coombe.
Redcliff has decided between two heavenly little places one in Scotland and one in Wales. Perhaps next week or a week later. Things must be prepared for her comfort." Lady Lothwell went home and talked a little to Kathryn who listened with sympathetic intelligence. "It would have been better not to have noticed her poor little wrists," she said.
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