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Suddenly a howl went up. Garth had made two faults. Jane found her chair, and turned her attention to the game. Almost instantly shrieks of astonishment and surprise again arose. Garth had served INTO the net and OVER the line. Game and set were Ronnie's. "One all," remarked Billy. "Well! I never saw Dal do THAT before. However; it gives us the bliss of watching another set.
Ronnie's wild scoop at it was hopeless. Game and set were Garth's. They walked off the ground together, their rackets under their arms, the flush of a well-contested fight on their handsome faces. It had been so near a thing that both could sense the thrill of victory. Pauline Lister had been sitting with Garth's coat on her lap, and his watch and chain were in her keeping.
Then Ronnie's knees gave way again; his feet sank deeply into the sand; and Aubrey, forcing him violently backward, pinned him down in his chair. "I would kill you for this," he whispered, his face very close to Ronnie's; blood streaming from his lip. "I would kill you for this, you clown!
But Helen gloried in the praise, kept a watchful eye, so far as he would let her, on the pennies; and herself ministered to the idea that all else must be subservient, where Ronnie's literary career was concerned. She was ministering to it now, at a personal cost known only to her own brave heart. It was Ronnie's last evening in England.
There was a way surely there was a way! Ronnie's dull stare became intolerable. She went to him, bravely, steadfastly. "Go and lie down!" she said. "I will see about it for you." Something in her own words sent a sudden flash through her brain. She caught her breath, and her face turned very white. But her steadfastness did not forsake her. She took Ronnie by the arm and guided him to his room.
"But the undoubted fact remains that we each saw, reflected in that mirror, objects which were not at that moment in the room. In fact we saw the past reflected, rather than the present. My psychic authority considers that both our impressions came to us through Ronnie's mind, and were already fading, owing to the fact that he had become unconscious.
Ronnie's first sensation as he returned to consciousness, was of extreme lassitude and exhaustion. His eyelids lifted heavily; he had some difficulty in realising where he was. Then he saw his 'cello, leaning against a chair; and, a moment later, Aubrey Treherne, lying back in the seat opposite, enveloped in a cloud of tobacco smoke. "Hullo, West!" said Aubrey, kindly.
If these boys wished to tell her, and get it off their minds, why should she not know? It would put a stop, once for all, to Ronnie's tragic love-making. "Yes, Billy," she said. "You may as well tell me." The room was very still. A rosebud tapped twice against the window-pane. It might have been a warning finger. Neither noticed it. It tapped a third time.
Having made up her mind that the time had come when she might at last share it with Ronnie, it seemed almost impossible to wait one moment before telling him. On the other hand, it would be so absorbing to them both, that probably Ronnie's subject would be allowed to lapse, completely forgotten and unmentioned.
His thin lips curved into the semblance of a smile. "Ah, yes," he said, "of course. Helen is a great stickler for respectability. Well? So you gave up undressing your Infant in the street?" Again Ronnie's eager face took on a look of perplexity. "I did not propose undressing it," he said. "I only wanted to take it out of its bag." "I see. Quite a simple matter. Well?
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