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Has she had an accident? Does she mean never to return? Are all my calculations of no sense, and has she left me forever? In despair, at ten o'clock I telephoned the Hotel de Courville. Lady Thormonde had been there in the morning, I was told, but the Duchesse had left for Hautevine at two o'clock. No one was in the house now. No, they did not know Lady Hilda Bulteel's telephone number.
"May you know every happiness, Lady Thormonde," he said. "Take care of Nicholas and make him quite well, he is the best fellow on earth." Alathea thanked him coldly. He is such a citizen of the world that he showed no surprise, and finally we were off on our way to the flat. Here Madame Bizot and her daughter, and the baby, awaited us! And in the creature's tiny hand was a bunch of violets.
"Good morning" I said tentatively, she made a slight inclination as much as to say "I recognize you have spoken," then she waited for me to continue. I felt an egregious ass, I knew I was nervous as a bird, I could not think of anything to say I, Nicholas Thormonde, accustomed to any old thing! nervous of a little secretary!
I must read Henley again, and try to feel the thrill of pride I used to feel when I was a boy at the line "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." What if she does not come back, and I do not hear any more of her? Stop! Nicholas Thormonde, this is contemptible weakness!
I am utterly ashamed of my weakness and you will not have called upon my chivalry in vain, I promise you. I have to stay in bed, so I cannot be at the flat, and if you receive this in time I shall be obliged if you will come out here again on Saturday. Yours very truly, Nicholas Thormonde."
Her French mind of the Ancien Régime could not contemplate a Thormonde son of Anne de Mont-Anbin falling in love with an insignificant Miss Sharp who brings bandages to the Courville hospital! These thoughts tormented me so all yesterday that I was quite feverish by the evening and Burton wore an air of thorough disapproval.
"Of course," and she reddened. "Are you not master here? How absurd to ask me!" "It is not; you are Lady Thormonde, even if you are not my wife, and have a right to courtesy." She shrugged her shoulders. "Why did you put 'To Alathea from her husband' on the bracelets? You are 'Sir Nicholas' and not my husband."
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