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"No pills all jelly!" she had time to say smilingly, before the door opened and three persons came into the room: Doctor Studdiford, handsomer and more boyishly radiant than ever; Miss Toland, quite gray, but erect and vigorous still; and little Anna, a splendid, glowing ten-year-old, in the blue serge sailor suit and round straw hat made popular by the little English princess. Babel followed.
Once they saw Doctor Studdiford laughing and talking at a distant table with a group of young men, and once it was Barbara, lovely in a blue evening gown, who came across the room to speak to her aunt. "And hello, Julia!" said Barbara pleasantly, on this occasion, resting her armful of blue brocade and eiderdown upon a chair back. "It's awfully nice to see you two enjoying yourselves!"
He's associated with one of the biggest consulting surgeons we have, old Sir Peveril McCann. They met in Berlin. I didn't know it until this spring March it was. We'd just come up from the country to meet Francis, home on a year's leave; it was just before Malcolm arrived. Somebody spoke of this Doctor Studdiford, and I said at once that it must be my foster brother.
"If Jim Studdiford is so selfish as to to make his wife unhappy for those very facts that made him first love her and choose her, well, I think the less of Jim, that's all! Now give me a kiss, and we'll go and pick out something for Barbara's boy!" "Well, it may be a pretty safe general rule not to discuss your husband with your women friends," Julia said gayly.
Once, while he slept, she peered through his door, going back to her room and her spinning with tears blinding the plaintive blue eyes. At last, one day, her mother came from the Captain's room and said to her gently: "Kate, Captain Studdiford asks why you do not come to see him. He tells me that for three days he has suffered because you have been so unkind.
Julia never saw Jim's clothing except when he was wearing it, the table linen was Ellie's affair, and Lizzie had the entire lower floor bright and fragrant with fresh flowers before Jim and Julia came down to breakfast. Young Mrs. Studdiford found herself readily assuming the society woman's dry, brief mannerisms.
Studdiford was living in a labourer's house in the Mission. What impression they got I haven't the faintest idea. Once or twice women called, just curious of course, Mrs. Hunter and Miss Saunders but that soon stopped. I was better hidden on Shotwell Street than I would have been in the heart of India!
Julia's eyes widened with a quick alarm, her breast rose, but she answered composedly: "That I would have fought." "And you have always had as much money " Jim began again, trying to rally the arguments with which he had felt sure to overwhelm her. "I spent that as much for your sake as for mine," Julia said soberly. "She is a Studdiford. I wanted to be fair to Anna.
"Oh, Jim, I'm so glad you're a doctor," she added weakly, clutching his arm, "and so cold blooded and reliable!" "I'm glad I was here," Jim answered simply. She's fainted!" It was Christmas time before Julia saw Doctor Studdiford again, and then it was but for a few minutes.
"But his father was just another such moody fellow, queer as Dick's hatband!" she added, suddenly, after a pause. "Jim's father? I didn't know you knew him!" "Knew him? Indeed I did! We all lived in Honolulu in those days. Charming, charming fellow, George Studdiford, but queer.
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