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Aren't you bored with your large, beautiful self?" Joan looked at him with an annihilating glance, and crossed the room to Millie Splay. "Bored! How could I be? When I have so many priceless wasted hours to make up for!" "Yes, yes, my dear," said Millie Splay soothingly. "Come and have some tea." "That's it, Joan," cried Jupp, unrepressed by the girl's contempt.
The window embraced a view of part of the gulf, including the entrance, and a strip of jungle-clad country running right down to the water's edge; while beyond these two points the outlook was restricted by the outer edges of the splay in which the window was built.
Voices rose up to them from the floor above the music of the gramophone. Joan's: "That's the twinkle." Luttrell's: "It's pretty difficult." "Try it again," said Joan. "Oh, that's ever so much better." "I shall never dare to dance it with any one else," said Luttrell. "I really don't mind very much about that," Joan responded dryly. Millie Splay could hardly believe her ears.
However that might be, she could have kissed his funny, splay feet every time she looked at her sister's bright eyes and red lips; and when she thought of the joy it would be to her father, she could have kissed his ugly, wrinkled old face.
Martin Hillyard turned and ran swiftly up the stairs. There was but one thing to do. Lady Splay must be fetched down. But hurry as he might, he was not in time. For a few seconds Joan and Jenny Prask were alone in the hall, and all Jenny's composure left her on the instant.
"There's Joan," said Millie Splay. "Jenny Prask hates her. She means to drag her into some scandal." "If she can," said Martin. He went out into the hall and returned with the key of Stella Croyle's room. He held it up before them all. "This key was found on the lawn outside the library window this morning by Luttrell.
Millicent Splay did not connect Harry Luttrell with Stella Croyle. It would have been better if Hillyard, that very night, had enlightened her. But he was neither a gossip nor a meddler. It was not possible that he should. It is curious to recollect how smoothly the surface water ran during that last week of peace. Debates there were, of course, and much argument across the table.
I should be so sorry." "No, I am not," Martin Hillyard hastened to reassure her, "not one bit." The commiseration died on the instant in Millicent Splay. "Well, really I don't see why you shouldn't be," she said coldly. "You will go a long way before you find any one to equal her." Her whole attitude demanded of him an explanation of how he dared not to be in love with her darling.
Little ships, trees, and wonderful enamelled representations of perils by robbers, field and flood, hung thickly on Saint Julian's pillar, and on the wall and splay of the window beside it; and here, after crossing himself, Master Headley rapidly repeated a Paternoster, and ratified his vow of presenting a bronze image of the hound to whom he owed his rescue.
"Yes," said Lady Splay. "Whilst they were waiting for the news from France, which did not come, they rang you up from the Harpoon office. Yes: they rang up Rackham Park." Harry Luttrell snatched up the letter once more from the table. Yes, there across the left-hand corner was printed Sir Chichester's telephone number and the district exchange. "They were answered by a woman.
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