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Agatha internally hoped he might not; for, much as she liked and respected Emma's good spouse, her ideal of a husband was certainly not Mr. James Thornycroft. "Tell me," continued the anxious matron, keeping up the charge "tell me, Agatha, do you ever intend to marry at all? "Perhaps so; I can't say. Ask Tittens!" "Did you ever think in earnest of marrying?
Twisting her fingers in and about her pet's jetty for, Agatha sat silent, until slowly there grew a thoughtful shadow in her eyes, a forewarning of the gradual passing away of that childishness, which in her, from accidental circumstances, had lasted strangely long. "Come, we won't be foolish, Tittens," cried she, suddenly starting up.
And as for dawdling round this square and Russell Square with Jane Ianson and Fido pah! I'd quite as soon be changed into a lapdog, and led along by a string. How stupid London is! Oh, Tittens, to think that you and I have never lived in the country since we were born. Wouldn't you like to go? Only, then we should never see anybody"
Our house is getting quite gay, Miss Tittens; only it is so much the duller in the mornings. Heigho! "Life's a weary, weary, weary, Life's a weary coble o' care." "What's the other verse? And she began humming: "Man's a steerer, steerer, steerer, Man's a steerer life is a pool." "I wonder, Tittens, how you and I shall steer through it? and whether the pool will be muddy or clear?"
"Well, Tittens, I don't know, really, what we are to do with ourselves this morning," said Agatha, talking aloud to her Familiar, the black kitten, who shared the solitude of her little drawing-room. "You'd like to go and play downstairs, I dare say? It's all very nice for you to be running after Mrs. Ianson's wools, but I can't see anything amusing in fancy-work.
"I sincerely hope so, provided he is not mine. Come, Tittens, tell Mrs. Thornycroft what you think on the matter," cried the wilful girl, trying to turn the question off by catching her little favourite. But Emma would not thus be set aside. She was evidently well primed with a stronger and steadier motive than what usually occupied and sufficed her easy mind. "Ah, how can you be so childish!
The foolish girl paused, and laughed, as if she did not like to soliloquise too confidentially, even to a kitten. "Which of them did you like the best last night, Tittens? One was not over civil to you; but Nathanael yes, certainly you and that juvenile are great friends, considering you have met but four evenings. All in one week, too.
Agatha was more moved by that trifling circumstance, and by the self-restraint and silence that accompanied it, than she would have been by a whole quire of ordinary love-letters. He did not write again during seven entire days, and while this pause lasted she had time to think much and deeply. She ceased to play and talk confidentially with Tittens, and felt herself growing into a woman fast.
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