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Updated: May 8, 2025
While Miss Penny slowly reads the letter, Miss Henny works daisies on a bit of canvas with pettish jerks of her silk, and Miss Cicely leans in the sofa-corner, staring at the newcomer, we will briefly introduce our small heroine.
Do you think I shall hurt her? Is she any better than I am? Oh, don't be afraid! We are not so easily soiled." Maurice demurred no more. "For until I see her, I shall not know I shall not know," she said to herself, when he had pledged his word. The tense expression of her face relaxed; her mouth drooped; she lay back in the sofa-corner and shut her eyes.
Then the rhythm took her again and with the second "sur l'eau, si beau," she saw a very blue lake and a little boat with lateen sails, and during the third verse began to forget the lifeless voice. As the murmured refrain came from the girls there was a slight movement in Fraulein's sofa-corner.
The doctor, too, started, and began mechanically to button his coat, but said nothing. Adela gave a little suppressed scream, and ashamed of the weakness, crept away to her sofa-corner. The servant entered, saying that Dr. Armstrong's man wanted to see him. Harry went into the passage, which was just outside the drawing-room, and the company overheard the following conversation, every word.
The impulse to press his lips to it made him come close and draw her upward. She threw her head back, as if surprised at the abruptness of the gesture; then her face leaned to his with the slow droop of a flower. He felt again the sweep of the secret tides, and all his fears went down in them. She sat down in the sofa-corner by the fire and he drew an armchair close to her.
Her glance, making a swift circuit of the room, dwelt for an appreciable instant on the intimate propinquity of arm-chair and sofa-corner; then she turned back to the door. At dinner that evening Madame de Chantelle's slender monologue was thrown out over gulfs of silence.
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