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Updated: June 29, 2025
She knelt by the old sleighback bed and took a thin hand in hers. She smiled into the proud and happy eyes. "I brought something for her, Mary, I brought her first present. It's vairee old, it is clothes I found them first when I was ra-ther little myself." She talked softly, her slender fingers busied themselves with the old leather case. She held up the beautiful wee garments.
He stopped, absolutely dazed. He thought that he must be struggling in a dream. He actually stepped across his fallen antagonist as he strode toward her. His blonde hair was rumpled from wrestling, his eyes shone with the light of victory. He stretched out his arms. "Are you real " he stammered, "tell me quickly, are you real " "I am vairee real " she answered breathlessly, "but I am old " Old!
"You you're rather embarrassing " she sighed, "Though of course," her eyes danced mischievously, "my knees and my ankles and my insteps are vairee nice indeed I got them all from Louisa, Margot says and my hands " she stretched one out "They're Grandmother Trenton's and I think I have nice ears but the rest of me " she shrugged, "The rest of me won't do at all my mouth is too big and no, I wouldn't be at all your Pandora it's dark here that's why you thought you saw her "
Suddenly her rapturous ear caught Dudley Hamilt's resonant voice speaking, "Who is it?" he demanded impatiently. Her low sweet laughter purred over the wires to him. "Can't you remember?" she asked quietly. "I am Felice. Yes, I am Felice. I have been trying to find your house, Dudley Hamilt, but it's gone, they are building a vairee big house there.
Excusing himself to his host, Ulwin, and to some of the officers with whom he had been chatting, the leader of the submarine boys went quickly to the coat-room for his hat, then descended in the elevator. "Vairee strange place, zis, for a lady to follow a zhentleman to hees club," drawled a French captain.
"There is a man I know," she told him, "a man named Dudley Hamilt. When we were both of us vairee young he liked me vairee much. But I went away. And when I came back and he saw me again he did not know me at all. It was vairee hard for me that time. You see, I looked vairee funny and old. Much more funny than when you saw me. As funny as those little pictures Thad makes so that people will laugh.
She's to pay some girl's rent for as long as she stays herself rent free, do you see? As soon as she can she'll pay her own rent and she'll pay another rent too, that's vairee business like, don't you think, Dulcie?" Dulcie solemnly assured Janet she "couldn't beat it." She offered to enter into a similar agreement. Janet couldn't get any sense out of either of them.
"I shall not weep," said Felicia calmly. "I shall just tell him how vairee simple it would be for him to explain. He can just tell people that it is her play and that some of it is her moneys and then he can give you the money. Oh, you couldn't have understood how bad, bad, bad you made things for her!
"Grandy," she whispered once, "You stub-stub-stubborn man! Why don't you learn to pretend! Why don't you make believe they're all here?" she waved her hand toward the portraits around them! "I pretend they're proud, proud, proud I'm here! It must have been vairee stupid for them before I came!" The Major was not her only audience.
The applause was louder this time. Some of them were talking delightedly and the rising murmur of their approval warmed her trembling heart. "Another! Another!" called her excitable bald friend. "It's vairee good of you to like them. Do you think you'd enjoy a French one now? That is if it isn't ten minutes. They told me to do this for ten minutes "
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