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Updated: July 20, 2025
She put all this in reckless black and white and sent it by the hand of Shima. Then she waited. She waited, in her little isolation, with the sapphire always hung about her neck, waited with what anticipation of marvelous results avowals, ideal farewells, or possibly some incredible transformation of the grim face of the business. And the answer was silence.
Shima entered with two letters upon his tray. She had a moment's anxiety lest both her notes had been brought back to her, but no the envelope which lay on top showed Harry's writing. She tore it open hastily. Harry wrote that he would be delighted, and might he bring a friend with him; a bully fellow whom he wanted her to meet?
"I shan't have to dress." Such a statement Flora felt must amaze even Shima, waiting like an image on the threshold of the dining-room. But if these people were waiting to be amazed she felt herself equal to amazing them to the top of their expectations. "Oh, but at least go up and let Marrika give you some pins," Clara protested, hurrying forward as if fairly to drive her.
Before it should stop she must leap. She gathered her skirts and sprang sprang clean to the sidewalk. The steps of her house rushed by her in her upward flight. Her bell pealed. She covered her eyes. For the moment before Shima opened the door there was nothing but darkness and silence.
She waited, dimly aware of voices going on beyond the curtains of the drawing-room, but all her listening power was concentrated on the silence without a silence that remained unbroken, and out of which Shima returned with the same imperturable countenance. "He wants ten dollars." "Oh, yes, give him anything," Flora gasped. If that was all the Chinaman had followed her for!
And it was, of course, for that reason that she ran up-stairs ran wildly, regardlessly, before the eyes of Shima and along the hall, her high heels clacking on the hard floors, and through her bedroom to the dressing-room, snatched open the table drawer, unlocked the casket with a twitch of the key and, ah, it was there! It was really real! Why, what had she expected? She was laughing at herself.
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