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Fan did not quite understand all this; her mistress was always mocking at something, she knew; she only asked if it was really in the country where she would live. Miss Starbrow took up the letter and read the remaining portion, which contained a description of Wood End House the Churtons' residence and its surroundings.
"Tell me at once when I order you." "I asked if she was going without her wages and a character, and she said as you had paid her her wages, \and she didn't want a character, because she didn't consider the house was respectable." Miss Starbrow sent her away and closed the door; presently she sat down at some distance from Fan, but spoke no word.
"Dear Fan," she said, "does not your own heart tell you that it is all a mistake? And if you feel that you do love me, do you not know from your own experience, whether you hide the feeling or not, that your love for others, and chiefly for so dear a friend as Miss Starbrow, remains just as strong as before?" Fan gladly answered in the affirmative.
"My name is Affleck. But you only saw me once, and it is not strange you should have forgotten it." It was true that she had only seen him once; for in spite of the brave words he had spoken to Miss Starbrow after she had rejected his offer of marriage, he had never returned to her house.
Come in here; I want you." Miss Starbrow and her visitor were sitting near the window. How changed she looked, with her cheeks so full of rich red colour, and her dark eyes sparkling with happy, almost joyous excitement! But she did not speak when Fan, blushing a little with shyness, advanced into the room and stood before them, her eyes cast down in a pretty confusion.
Fan held it back, and went on perusing it slowly. It was from Miss Starbrow at Twickenham, and said: "Come to me here by train from Westbourne Park Station. Bring two or three dresses and all you will require in my bag. Shall remain here several days. The housekeeper will meet you at Twickenham Station."
"Oh, please don't think that I am cross. I am so glad you like to talk to me." Miss Starbrow smiled and touched her cheek, and at length stooped and kissed her; and this little display of confidence and affection chased away the last remaining cloud, and made Fan perfectly happy. The partial forgiveness extended to Captain Horton did not have exactly the results foretold.
I have discovered that it is the one subject about which she is capable of losing her temper and quarrelling with her best friend." "Is that so?" he returned, laughingly. "Then she must be as eccentric as Miss Starbrow herself. But what does the poor girl intend doing she must do something to live, I suppose?" Constance told him all about Fan's projects. "Why do you smile?" she said.
"She is too young to feel your words, perhaps, but they are nothing less than insulting to my judgment." "Oh, confound it, Pollie, you are always flying out at me! I dare say she's a good girl she looks it, but if you want me to say that she's good-looking, I can't be such a hypocrite even to please you." Miss Starbrow flashed a keen glance at him, and then without replying turned to Mr. Brown.
The slower you are the better it will be," said Miss Starbrow, taking up a volume and beginning to read, or pretending to read, for her eyes were on the face of the girl most of the time. Fan, happily unconscious of the other's regard, gave eight or ten minutes to her drawing, and then Miss Starbrow took it in her hands to examine it.
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