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"We'll talk it over presently," replied Montague, as he glanced at Miss Spraggs. "Am I so very young and innocent that I shouldn't learn what has happened?" asked Miss Spraggs, who, in her heart of hearts, enjoyed revelations of masculine profligacy. "I'd rather speak later," urged Montague gloomily, to add, "It never rains but it pours." "Why do you say that?" asked his wife quickly.
Since the Spraggs, some two years previously, had moved from Apex City to New York, they had made little progress in establishing relations with their new environment; and when, about four months earlier, Mrs. Spragg's doctor had called in Mrs. Heeny to minister professionally to his patient, he had done more for her spirit than for her body. Mrs.
But they were met by a mute resistance which made Ralph suspect that Undine's strictures on his family had taken root in her mother's brooding mind; and he gave up the struggle to bring together what had been so effectually put asunder. If he regretted his lack of success it was chiefly because he was so sorry for the Spraggs.
Spraggs was gone, leaving behind him sage advice, and a vast benevolence of bottles, Pet returned, very dirty and hungry, and cross, and most unpoetical. "Drum," said Pet, in his free and easy style, about ten days after that escape, to a highly respected individual, Mr. Welldrum, the butler "Drum, you have heard perhaps about my being poorly."
"If two people are in love with each other, and can afford to marry, it seems a particularly natural proceeding," said Mavis simply. "One that you would welcome?" asked Miss Spraggs, as she raised her thin eyebrows. "One that someone else would welcome," put in Devitt gallantly. But Mavis took no notice of this interruption, as she said: "Of course. Nothing I should wish for more."
"This is our best chance of a quiet talk, so I'll come to the point at once," began Mrs Devitt. "By all means," said Mavis, as Miss Spraggs took up a book and pretended to be interested in its contents. "How soon do you require a situation?" "At once." "Has Miss Mee applied to anyone else in the neighbourhood on your account?" "Not that I'm aware of."
Here was no retrospective pretense of an opulent past, such as the other Invaders were given to parading before the bland but undeceived subject race. The Spraggs had been "plain people" and had not yet learned to be ashamed of it. The fact drew them much closer to the Dagonet ideals than any sham elegance in the past tense. Ralph felt that his mother, who shuddered away from Mrs.
"She must be bad to have fascinated Sir Archibald as she has done," she declared. "Windebank is no fool," urged her husband. "I suppose the next thing we shall hear is that she's living under his protection," cried Mrs Devitt. "In St John's Wood," added Miss Spraggs, whose information on such matters was thirty years behind the times. "More likely he'll marry her," remarked Devitt.
It was on the day the Spraggs left Skog Harbour that Undine vowed to herself with set lips: "I'll never try anything again till I try New York." Now she had gained her point and tried New York, and so far, it seemed, with no better success. From small things to great, everything went against her.
Spraggs feels that it is so important, and may be the turning-point in his sad illness. It seems such a long way in such weather; and selfish people, who can never understand, might say that it was quite unkind of us.
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