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Updated: June 19, 2025
"We are living on the edge of a volcano the country is, I mean and your share in the country's work is to teach the citizens to dance!" "Well," said Sissie. "They'll dance anyhow, and so they may as well learn to dance properly. And what else can I do? Have you had me taught to do anything else? You and mother have brought me up to be perfectly useless except as the wife of a rich man.
Hewlitt were crossing the channel post-haste, and Diana must start from school and meet them in Liverpool. Loveday helped her to pack her boxes. It was an excited, fluttered, tearful little Diana who clung to her at the last. "Sissie! I can't say 'Good-bye! It's not 'good-bye' to you only 'au revoir'." "We'll meet again some day, darling!"
And Davidson was interested. He was interested not because the hints were exciting but because of that innate curiosity about our fellows which is a trait of human nature. Davidson's existence, too, running the Sissie along the Java Sea and back again, was distinctly monotonous and, in a sense, lonely. He never had any sort of company on board.
The cocktails, however, beguiled the suspense. "Is this for me?" she asked, picking up a full glass when she came back. "No, my dear," said Mr. Bishop. "It isn't. We will go in to lunch." And they went in to lunch, leaving unconsumed the cocktail which the abstemious and spartan Sissie had declined to drink.
If it's a boy, to whom curls will be a curse and a cross of affliction, he is morally certain to be as curly as a frizzly chicken, and until he gets old enough to rebel he will wear long ringlets and boys of his acquaintance will insert cockle-burs and chewing gum into his tresses, and he will be known popularly as Sissie and otherwise his life with be made joyous and carefree for him.
Do you know that you gave me the fright of my life to-night, going out without saying where you were going to? Do you know that you put me into such a state that I've been telephoning to police-stations to find out whether there'd been any street accidents happening to a woman of your description? I was so upset that I daren't even go upstairs and call Sissie."
"Miss Sissie has cracked it." "I'm very sorry my daughter should be so clumsy." "It was not exactly clumsiness. I offered her the eye-glass to do what she pleased with, and she pleased to break it." "Surely an impertinence?" "No. A favour. Miss Sissie did not care for my eye-glass." "You must be considerably incommoded." "No. The purpose of my eye-glass was decorative, not optical."
Whereupon Sissie laughed more loudly and hysterically than ever. Mr. Prohack deemed that masculine tact should be applied. He soothed the outraged mother and tranquillised the ecstatic daughter, and then in a matter-of-fact voice asked: "And what about the date? Do let's get it over." "We must consult Ozzie," said the pacified mamma. Off went Sissie again into shrieks.
Prohack to make it. They knew, at second-hand through a friend of Viola Ridle's, that Sissie was regularly active at the studio; also Sissie had had the effrontery to send a messenger for some of her clothes without even a note! The situation was incredible, and waxed daily in incredibility. Sissie's behaviour could not possibly be excused.
Prohack found satisfaction in the naturalness, the freedom from pose, of Ozzie's diffident and disconcerted demeanour. His sympathy for the young man was increased by the young man's increasing consternation. "Again," resumed Mr. Prohack, ignoring Ozzie's hope. "Take the case of Sissie herself. Sissie's education was designed and superintended by myself.
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