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Stringham that she had arrears to make up, the chances that had lapsed for her through the wanton ways of forefathers fond of Paris, but not of its higher sides, and fond almost of nothing else; but the vagueness, the openness, the eagerness without point and the interest without pause all a part of the charm of her oddity as at first presented had become more striking in proportion as they triumphed over movement and change.
She had left him the enjoyment of his confidence, the form of which might have appeared a trifle free that she now reasserted; she had done nothing either to impair or to enhance it; but she had also left Mrs. Stringham, in the connection and at the time, rather sorry to have missed Mr. Densher.
Stringham; who, besides, was afterwards to recall as the very beginning of a drama the terms in which, between their smoky candles, the girl had put her preference and in which still other things had come up, come while the clank of waggon-chains in the sharp air reached their ears, with the stamp of hoofs, the rattle of buckets and the foreign questions, foreign answers, that were all alike a part of the cheery converse of the road.
Stringham, who rustled in a little breathless and full of the compunction of having had to come alone. Her companion, at the last moment, had been indisposed positively not well enough, and so had packed her off, insistently, with excuses, with wild regrets.
"But she was ill." "That hadn't prevented her as you yourself a moment ago said during the previous time. If it had been only illness it would have made no difference with her." "She would still have received you?" "She would still have received me." "Oh well," said Kate, "if you know !" "Of course I know. I know moreover as well from Mrs. Stringham." "And what does Mrs. Stringham know?"
Kate was splendid, and it would have been clear for Milly now, had the further presumption been needed, that she had said no word to Mrs. Stringham. "You mean you've been absurd?" "Absurd." It was a simple word to say, but the consequence of it, for our young woman, was that she felt it, as soon as spoken, to have done something for her safety. And Kate really hung on her lips.
"No," she heard him again distinctly repeat it, "I don't want you for the present to do anything at all; anything, that is, but obey a small prescription or two that will be made clear to you, and let me within a few days come to see you at home." It was at first heavenly. "Then you'll see Mrs. Stringham." But she didn't mind a bit now. "Well, I shan't be afraid of Mrs. Stringham."
And I had thought of all sorts of things. Yet it doesn't prevent the fact that we must be decent." "We must take her" Mrs. Stringham carried that out "as she is." "And we must take Mr. Densher as he is." With which Mrs. Lowder gave a sombre laugh. "It's a pity he isn't better!"
Stringham fully knew why the question had startled her still more than its suddenness explained; though the effect of it even at the moment was almost to frighten her into a false answer. She had to think, to remember the occasion, the "ninth," in New York, the time she had seen Dr.
Stringham had decided what to do, made others vain; in accordance with which she saw, or believed she did, that if it might be dangerous to call out, to sound in any way a surprise, it would probably be safe enough to withdraw as she had come. She watched a while longer, she held her breath, and she never knew afterwards what time had elapsed.
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