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But she had had her reasons for putting up at an hotel, and she thought it unnecessary to express them very definitely. She came home by a morning train, the second day, and arrived before luncheon, of which meal she partook in the company of her sister and in that of Miss Steet and the children, sent for in honour of the occasion.
He looked at her very hard, smiling as if to say, 'No, no, I'm not not if you think it! She perceived with relief in a moment that he was not very bad, and liquor disposed him apparently to tenderness, for he indulged in an interminable kissing of Geordie and Ferdy, during which Miss Steet turned away delicately, looking out of the window.
The letter she had in her head went out like a flame in the wind and her only thought now was to telegraph to Selina the first thing in the morning, in quite different words. She scarcely spoke to Miss Steet and there was very little the governess could say to her: she had already related her history so often.
There were things she wanted to do before going, and she was too weak to act without assistance. She didn't want it from the servants, if only Miss Steet would learn from them whether Mr. Berrington were dining at home. Laura told her that her sister was ill and she was hurrying to join her abroad. It had to be mentioned, that way, that Mrs.
'No, but she wants Selina to see to appreciate, said the young girl. 'And doesn't she appreciate when she leaves them that way quite to the young woman? 'Miss Steet thinks she doesn't notice how they come on she is never there. 'And has she wept and told you so? You know they are always crying, governesses whatever line you take.
Miss Steet had related her life to the children's pretty young aunt and this personage knew that though it had had painful elements nothing so disagreeable had ever befallen her or was likely to befall her as the odious possibility of her sister's making a scandal.
Miss Steet was more frightened than herself she was a very shrinking bulwark. The dinner was dull and the conversation rare; the governess ate three olives and looked at the figures on the spoons. Laura had more than ever her sense of impending calamity; a draught of misfortune seemed to blow through the house; it chilled her feet under her chair.
In spite of this 'That's a very nice thing, that last, she heard a vague voice say, behind her, at the end; and she became aware that her brother-in-law had joined them again. Miss Steet was pusillanimous she retreated on the spot, though Lionel had already forgotten that he was angry at the scandalous way she had carried off the children from the schoolroom.
'I'd hit him in the eye! cried Ferdy, with cheerful inconsequence. 'Perhaps you don't care to come to dinner at half-past seven, the girl said to Miss Steet; 'but I should be very glad I'm all alone. 'Thank you so much. All alone, really? murmured the governess. 'Why don't you get married? then you wouldn't be alone, Geordie interposed, with ingenuity.
She was afraid the children would discover them, or at any rate Miss Steet, and she felt the importance of not letting him stay in the room. She thought it almost a sign that he should have come there at all he was so rare an apparition.
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