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But Susy's satisfaction was by no means complete. In the first place, Katie would not go to bed, and could not be persuaded to leave the room any longer than just to bring in her ragged black Dinah, and the yellow-and-white kitten. Dinah was passed around the room to be pitied. There was a mustard plaster on her chest, applied that day by Dotty, in order to break up a lung fever.
Taking upon himself the idea of suggesting Susy's escapade, he confessed the fault. The old man gazed into his frank eyes with a thoughtful, half-compassionate smile. "I was just thinking of giving you a holiday with with Don Juan Robinson." The unusual substitution of this final title for the habitual "your cousin" struck Clarence uneasily. "But we will speak of that later.
It was not thought inconsistent with Susy's capriciousness that she should declare her intention the next morning of driving her pony buggy to Santa Inez to anticipate the stage-coach and fetch Mary Rogers from the station. Mrs. Peyton, as usual, supported the young lady's whim and opposed her husband's objections.
When the examination day came he managed to get through successfully, though his paperwork had to have allowances made for its deficiencies. But at home all the effects of Susy's rescue had passed away, and Dick was more scolded and starved than ever before. "Here, you young rascal, I'll teach you to meddle with my tools! What have you done with my knife?"
She let Lydia kiss her, and then walking very slowly to the door, so as not to have an appearance of being put to flight, she disappeared. Lydia was left to think and think her eyes on the ground. Never had life run so warmly and richly; she was amply conscious of it. And what, pray, in spite of Susy's teasing, had love to say to it? Passion was ruled out she held the senses in leash, submissive.
Nick Lansing her name, Susy's own! and entering drawing-rooms with Nick in her wake, gaily welcomed by the very people who, a few months before, had welcomed Susy with the same warmth.
They were so dusty, so disheveled; all but Patricia had shoes on Custard had made off with both of Susy's, and Patricia had most willingly offered hers the opportunity to go barefoot was too good to be lost; Nell had only one stocking, Kitty none at all, Ruth was wearing Patricia's, Custard had certainly made the most of his chance to carry off things that afternoon.
He was as proud as ever of Susy's cleverness and freedom from prejudice: she couldn't be too "modern" for him now that she was his. He shared to the full her passionate enjoyment of the present, and all her feverish eagerness to make it last. He knew when she was thinking of ways of extending their golden opportunity, and he secretly thought with her, wondering what new means they could devise.
"Not a lamp-mat, of course?" "Why, yes it is! O, there, now you've been and guessed all in a minute! Susy's gone an' told! I didn't s'pose she'd tell. I wouldn't for nothin' in my world!" Was it strange that Susy felt vexed when she found that her nice little surprise was all spoiled? "Try to be patient," said Mrs. Parlin, gently. "Remember how young and thoughtless your sister is.
She made no reply whatever to Susy's outburst with regard to Antonia, but gently led the conversation to matters of every-day interest. "This is our largest drawing-room," she said, "but we have two others leading into it. The farthest drawing-room takes you into the dining-room, and that again into the library and morning-room. All our reception-rooms open one into the other.
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