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Updated: June 14, 2025
It is a charming laugh, apparently full of mirth. There are only two present who do not quite believe in it, Margaret and Tom Hescott but these two love her. As for Rylton, some instinct causes him at this moment to look at Hescott. Tita's cousin is staring at her, his brows met, his lips somewhat compressed.
It is for your sake I speak, because I have always your interest at heart; Maurice, I entreat you to pause, to think. Is all the fault on Tita's side? Have you loved her as she should be loved? that little, quick, enthusiastic creature. Where has your heart been since your marriage!" "You go very far," says Rylton, pale, cold. "I know; I know. And I am only a cousin, a mere nobody.
They hung Tonio's Maestro in the middle, with Tita's donkey-boy on one side and the policeman on the other. Pablo's Judas was a policeman too, and they put him on the other side of the donkey-boy. Then Pablo borrowed a match from a boy and set fire to the first cracker on his policeman. Fizz-fizz-bang! off went the first fire-cracker. Fizz-fizz-bang! off went the second one.
"That's what made them so funny," said Gower afterwards. And now Margaret makes a little excuse and goes too, but not before she has asked Maurice to stay to dinner. "Oh, thank you!" says Rylton, and then hesitates; but after a glance at Tita's face, most reluctantly, and a little hopelessly, as it seems to Margaret, declares he has a previous engagement.
The sun is high, but little clouds running across it now and again speak of sharp rains to come. "The air so soft, the pines whispering so low, The dragon-flies, like fairy spears of steel, Darting or poised." All these speak of the glad heat that still remains, though summer itself is but a dream that is gone. Tita's honeymoon is at an end. It had seemed to her delightful.
He has leant both his arms on it, and now involuntarily his eyes rest upon her shoes. "What beautiful feet you have!" says he slowly. It is a perfectly Machiavellian speech. Tita's feet are beyond argument, and there is not a woman in this world, any way, who has beautiful feet, who doesn't want everyone to tell her all about them.
Tita's determination not to accept the olive branch he offered her yesterday is before him too. What if she And, in truth, Tita had been angry. Her spirit had been roused. His open declaration that he believed her capable of carrying on a flirtation with her cousin had hurt her more than she cared to confess even to herself. It was so silly so unjust! She she! And he! What of him?
Hescott raises his right hand, pretends to feel blindly in the air for a moment, then his hand falls on Tita's sunny little head. It wanders on her short curls it is a very slow wandering. Mrs. Bethune looks up at Rylton, who is standing beside her. "Do you still doubt?" asks she, in a low whisper. "Doubt! I am a past master at it," says he bitterly. "I should be! You taught me!"
She has taken off Tita's evening gown, and, now that the little locks have been carefully seen to, has taken off her dressing-gown also. It occurs to Tita that she might as well take herself off as well, and as soon as possible. This thought makes her laugh.
Well, the incidents of the forenoon's shooting, picturesque as they were, and full of novelty to Tita's protege, need not be described. At the end of the fourth drive, when we had got on nearly to luncheon-time, it appeared that Charlie had killed a handsome buck, and he was so pleased with this performance that he grew friendly with Dr. Krumm, who had, indeed, given him the haupt-stelle.
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