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But Toni's dreams the rainbow dreams of happy youth were of a very different quality. Precisely at nine o'clock on the following morning Antonia presented herself at the office of the new review; and was forthwith conducted to the editor's room. Here Owen and Barry were waiting for her; and at the sight of the trim little figure in the doorway the faces of both men brightened.
Far from regretting his marriage, Owen merely regretted Toni's unreasonableness in the matter of Miss Loder; and once that young woman was removed from the scene, Owen had no doubt that he and his wife would shake down again quite comfortably and forget the recent scenes between them.
Toni's caught the fever, too, and nothing would do but that Walldorf and she should be married at once; but I put my foot down on that. I said the circumstances were quite different, and that I had no intention of being left all alone like a cat."
Then the lady from Geneva, who took an unusual interest in poor Toni's fate, exclaimed in great excitement: "How can a mother allow such a thing to happen to her child! It is wholly inconceivable, quite incomprehensible!" "You really can have no idea," replied the doctor soothingly, "what poor mothers are obliged to let happen to their children.
Slowly Toni's gaze came back to her husband's face; and in her eyes, velvety and black in the moonlight, Owen read her answer before she spoke. "Wherever you are is my land of beauty," she said, in a low voice. "But ... oh, I am so glad, so glad you have brought me home to Greenriver."
Spencer's departure, or the early-falling dusk, had brought back all her misery to Toni's mind, banishing in a flash all her recent joyful animation; and when, after observing her for a moment, Herrick came forward, he saw that a blight had fallen over her late gaiety.
Andrews was hovering about; and as he saw his mistress leading her guests he slipped away in search of fresh cups and a supply of hot tea. Inside the dining-room Miss Gibbs, having reduced her appearance to something like order, was sitting rather apprehensively in her place; and as the door opened to admit the quartette she rose and stood waiting nervously for Toni's introductions.
Well, to a heart rendered sore by a woman's callousness, such a warm, eager devotion as this was inexpressibly attractive; and if Owen's eyes were blinded by suffering, there was surely a chance that Toni's soft fingers laid upon their lids might prolong the merciful myopia. When tea was over there came a sudden little silence.
"She sends me but a telegram to the waiting-room an accident, illness I know not but she does not come, and I must go alone with the two little ones, who are both delicate and will be ill the whole journey through!" A wild inspiration flashed into Toni's mind. "You go to Naples?" she said. "I too wish to go, but hardly care to undertake the journey alone.
Barry's heart gave a sudden throb of dismay. There was something behind Owen's calm manner which made him feel vaguely uneasy. Could it be that Owen too had surprised Toni's pitiful little secret that he knew had known all along that the girl was not so indifferent to him as she wished to appear? For the moment Barry was nonplussed.
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