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But I managed it badly; I didn't know how to work it." She suddenly frowned again at this point as though at some sudden unpleasant recollection. "If" she began, looking seriously and even sadly at him "if when I read you all that about the 'poor knight, I wished to-to praise you for one thing I also wished to show you that I knew all and did not approve of your conduct."
So the Dictator, who had not much time to spare, being pressed with various affairs to attend to, was much pleased to find that To-to not merely welcomed him when the door was opened a welcome which the Dictator would have expected from To-to's undisguised regard and even patronage but that To-to briskly ran up the stairs in advance of the footman, and ran before him in through the drawing-room door when the footman had opened it.
'You would be very sorry if he did not miss you, Soame Rivers said blunderingly. Your cynical man of the world has his feelings and his angers. 'Very sorry! Helena defiantly declared. The Dictator came punctually at two he was always punctual. To-to was friendly, but did not conduct him. He was shown at once into the dining-room, where luncheon was laid out.
She was conscious of a sense of joy in the knowledge of the fact that To-to had not yet got down from London. There all calculation ceased. The hall-door was opened. The breath of the fresh morning came into their lungs. Helena drank it in, as if it were a draught of wine in more correct words, as if it were not a draught of wine, for she was not much of a wine-drinker.
He did not quite guess their relationship, but supposed they were cadets of the house, it being customary for those in any way connected to serve the head of the family. He noted the flag basket in Felix's hand, and naturally imagined that he had been at work. "You have been to-to plough, eh?" he said, intending to be very gracious and condescending. "Very healthy employment.
If it was an unfamiliar figure, To-to considered it an introduction in which he had no manner of interest, and, without waiting one second, he scampered back to rejoin his mistress, and try to explain to her that there was some very uninteresting man or woman coming to call on her. But if it was somebody he knew, and whom he knew that his mistress knew, then there were two courses open to him.
The other attendants and followers footmen, maids, and such like might be allowed the privilege of saying whether Miss Langley was or was not at home to receive visitors; but the special and quite peculiar function of To-to was to make it clear whether Miss Langley was or was not at that very moment waiting in her own particular drawing-room to welcome them.
Never was To-to known to make the slightest mistake about the actual condition of things. Never had he run up in advance of the Dictator when his mistress was not seated in her drawing-room ready to receive her visitor. Never had he remained lingering in the hall and the passages when Miss Langley was in her room, and prepared for the reception.
If Helena was not in her sitting room, To-to welcomed the visitor in the most friendly and hospitable way, and then fell into the background, and took no further notice, but ranged the premises carelessly and on his own account.
'Well, I'll speak to him. I'll tell him I've seen you. I fancy I shall be able to make it all right, he added, with a feeble smile. 'Oh! how good you are how good you are, cried Kate, clasping her hands. 'If he will only forgive me once again, I'll promise, I'll swear to him never to-to Here Kate stopped abashed, and burying her face in her hands, she wept bitterly.
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