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Updated: June 8, 2025
I'm rather relieved on the whole. He turned round and spoke into Vida's ear. 'I've been a little sorry for Sophia. She's never had the smallest interest in any man but that cousin of hers and, of course, it's quite hopeless. Vida sat perfectly motionless, back to the speaker, back to the disappearing hansom, staring at the parapet. 'You can turn round now quite safe. Sophia's out of range.
Freddy, appearing through the balcony window, 'till you've seen the children's pictures. Vida's eye had once more fallen on the reproduction of one of the Cretan frescoes with a sudden intensification of interest. 'What is it? Borrodaile asked, looking over her shoulder. Woman-like she offered the man the outermost fringe of her thought.
'Perhaps she doesn't know what else to do with all that money, said the lady of the pearls. 'She hasn't got a penny piece. 'Oh, is it all his? I thought the Leverings were rather well off. 'Yes, but the money came through the second wife, Vida's mother. Oh, I hate that Fox-Moore woman! Mrs. Freddy laughed ruefully. 'And I'm sure her husband is a great deal too good for her.
A woman, apparently of the small shopkeeping class, was already established at one end of the only bench anywhere near the cart. Her child who was playing about, was neatly dressed, and to Vida's surprise wore sandals on her stockingless feet. This fashion for children, which had been growing for years among the upper classes, had found little imitation among tradesmen or working people.
Yet all the while she beheld the burly cynical Frenchman and the diaphanous dancers as clearly as the child sees its air-born playmates; she relished the Camp Fire Girls not because, in Vida's words, "this Scout training will help so much to make them Good Wives," but because she hoped that the Sioux dances would bring subversive color into their dinginess.
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