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Fan pushed cup and saucer angrily away, and over they went, falling outside down to the area, where they struck with a loud crash and were shivered to pieces. Rosie laughed and clapped her hands in glee. "Oh, I'm so glad you've smashed it!" she exclaimed. "I'll tell Miss Starbrow, and then you'll see! That cup was the thing she valued most in the house.
Her new surroundings and dress, and the thought that she was no longer without someone to care for her, had served to inspire in her a pride which was stronger than hunger. Presently she noticed that the door had a key to it, and in her indignation at the maid's persecution she ran and locked it, resolved to let the dinner remain there untasted until Miss Starbrow should return.
Then she went up to her and put her hand on her shoulder. Fan started and shook the hand off, and raised her eyes wet with tears and red with weeping, but still full of anger. Miss Starbrow caught her by the arm. "Tell me what this means this telegram; when did you get it, and who gave it to you?" she said in such a tone that the girl was compelled to obey. "You know when you sent it," said Fan.
On the following morning Miss Starbrow left the house at an early hour, and Fan resigned herself to yet another cold solitary day. About eleven o'clock Rosie came running up in no little excitement with a telegram addressed to "Miss Affleck."
"On the whole," he said in a meditative way, "I am inclined to think that Brown is a rather clever fellow." Miss Starbrow laughed: she was still standing. "You two appear to be taking it very quietly," she said. "It is one o'clock why will you compel me to be rude?" Then they started up, put on their coats, exchanged a few words at the door with their hostess, and walked down the street together.
It was a pleasant gathering, for Mary did not quarrel with Fan for what she had done; nor was Tom Starbrow unfriendly towards his sister's lover; and as to Eden, he had grafted a new and better stock on that wild olive that had flourished so vigorously; and it thus came to pass that they spent an unclouded fortnight together. But that is perhaps saying a little too much.
"What nonsense you talk!" he exclaimed a little too warmly. "In love with a child!" "Yes, I know she's but a lassie yet," replied his sister with a mocking laugh. It was too much for his Starbrow temper, and taking up his hat he rose and marched angrily out of the room angry as much with himself as with his sister.
Here Miss Starbrow suddenly remembered the case of another woman, also clever and beautiful; and with a scornful glance at her own image in the glass, she remarked, "Thou fool, first pluck the beam out of thine own eye!"
"I took nothing except what you what the telegram said, and Rosie put the things in a bag and got the cab for me." For a minute or two Miss Starbrow sat in silence, and then got up and said: "Come, Fan." "Where?" "Home with me to Dawson Place." Then she added, "Must I tell you again that I have done nothing to harm you?
Miss Starbrow then put on an evening dress, which Fan now saw for the first time, and was filled with wonder at its richness and beauty. It was of saffron-coloured silk, trimmed with black lace; but she wore no ornaments with it, except gold bracelets on her round shapely arms.
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