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"A thousand times more," Rosamond assured him, looking to Roberta for confirmation, who nodded, smiling. They fell to work. Hats were removed, riding skirts were fastened out of the way, hampers were opened and the contents set forth. Everything that could possibly be needed was found in the hampers, even to coffee, steaming hot in the vacuum bottles as it had been poured into them.
He had been waiting impatiently for a fortnight for this presentation and had begun to think it would never come. Roberta Gray came forward to give the guest her hand with a ready courtesy which Richard met with the explanation of his presence. "I was asked to keep your brother company in the absence of the family. I can't help being glad that you didn't come in time to forestall me."
While she was still arguing and pleading to be allowed to stay and fight it out with him he stuck his head through the window and instructed the driver to take them to his hotel instead of to the police station, as first directed. With characteristic decisiveness he directed Roberta to begin her packing as soon as she reached her room.
And then in two minutes they were off, and Roberta, feeling the saddle beneath her and Colonel's familiar tug on the bit at the start-off he was always impatient to get away was realizing that the worst, at least for the present, was over. "Which way?" called Stephen, who was leading with Rosamond. "Out the road past the West Wood marshes, please straight out.
At present it concerns us to know that Miss La Sarthe and her sister had reached the Italian parlor, and were seated in their respective chairs Miss Roberta with a piece of delicate embroidery in her hands, the stitches of which her eyes without spectacles, to receive company were too weak adequately to perceive. Miss La Sarthe did not condescend to any such subterfuges.
"It would be more reckless not to, I imagine," returned Richard, laughing with Ruth and Roberta. "We'll see you to-night," Uncle Rufus reminded him as he drove off. "Bring Hugh with you. I asked him in the store, but he seemed to hesitate. It will do him good to get out." When the sleigh was a quarter of a mile up the road Ruth turned to her uncle.
"White linen you ought to get anywhere; but lavender you might try at Artwell & Chatford's. We'll go past Benson's, but it's no use looking there any more. Everybody's expecting poor Hugh to fail any day." "Oh, I'm sorry," said Roberta warmly. "I always liked Hugh Benson. Mr. Westcott told me some time ago that he was afraid Hugh wasn't succeeding."
'You heared my orders. 'I'll only stay a minute, she say. 'You cannot pass dat doah, said de soger. 'But I mus' an' will, cried Missy Roberta, an' she make a rush ter get out. De soger held her still. 'Unhan' me! she almost screamed. He turn her 'roun' an' push her back in de room, an' den says: 'Lady, does you tink a soger can disobey orders?
So Roberta put on her hat again and went to walk with Forbes Westcott out the road that led by the West Wood marshes. There was not a more romantic road to be found in a long way. When they were well out into the country he began to press a question which she had heard before, and to which he had had as yet no answer. "Still undecided?" said he, with a very sober face.
Shall we take a minute to do it?" "I should like it very much," agreed Roberta promptly. "I've heard mother speak of the fine old hall with its staircase a different type from ours, and very interesting." "There certainly is a remarkable attraction to me in this place," said Matthew Kendrick, walking beside Roberta with hands clasped behind his back and head well up.
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