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But it's not," he pursued, "only because she's so young that for each of us, and for dear old Mitchy too she's so interesting." Mr. Longdon had restlessly stepped down, and Vanderbank's eyes followed him till he stopped again. "I make out that in spite of what you said to begin with you're conscious of a certain pressure." "In the matter of time?
"I think I ought to let you know I'm studying you. It's really fair to tell you," he continued with an earnestness not discomposed by the indulgence in Vanderbank's face. "It's all right all right!" he reassuringly added, having meanwhile stopped before a photograph suspended on the wall.
"I think I ought to tell you the figure I have in mind." Another person present might have felt rather taxed either to determine the degree of provocation represented by Vanderbank's considerate smile, or to say if there was an appreciable interval before he rang out: "I think, you know, you oughtn't to do anything of the sort. Let that alone, please.
An observer at all initiated would, at the juncture, fairly have hung on his lips, and there was in fact on Vanderbank's part quite the look of the man though it lasted but just while we seize it in suspense about himself. The most initiated observer of all would have been poor Mr.
Vanderbank offered him another, and as he accepted it and took a light he said: "I don't know what you're doing with me I never at home smoke so much!" But he puffed away and, seated near, laid his hand on Vanderbank's arm as to help himself to utter something too delicate not to be guarded and yet too important not to be risked. "Now that's the sort of thing I did mean as one of my impressions."
Longdon pondered and then, a little to Vanderbank's surprise, at any rate to his deeper amusement, candidly asked: "Only Fernanda? No other lady?" "Oh yes, several other ladies." Mr. Longdon appeared to hear this with pleasure. "You're quite right. We don't make enough of Sunday at Beccles." "Oh we make plenty of it in London!" Vanderbank said.
I'm not speaking of that time at Malvern that came later." "Precisely I understand. You're speaking of the first years of her widowhood." Mr. Longdon just faltered. "I should call them rather the last. Six months later came her second marriage." Vanderbank's interest visibly improved. "Ah it was THEN? That was about my seventh year." He called things back and pieced them together.
"She told me so herself yesterday," said Van. "And she told ME so to-day." Vanderbank's hesitation might have shown he was struck with this. "Well, I don't think it's information that either of us required. But of course she can't help it," he added.
Longdon, "with your modern shades." He spoke now as if the case simply awaited such dealing. But at this his young friend was more grave. "YOU could do nothing? to bring, I mean, Mrs. Brook round." Mr. Longdon fairly started. "Propose on your behalf for her daughter? With your authority tomorrow. Authorise me and I instantly act." Vanderbank's colour again rose his flush was complete.
When Vanderbank's attention at any rate was free again their hostess, assisted to the transition, was describing the play, as she had called it, of the absentees. "She has hidden a book and he's trying to find it." "Hide and seek? Why, isn't it innocent, Mitch!" Mrs. Brook exclaimed. Mitchy, speaking for the first time, faced her with extravagant gloom. "Do you really think so?"
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