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Austin stared at her for a moment incredulously. "Dick in love in love with Viviette?" Then he broke into a peal of laughter. "My dear Katherine! Why, it's absurd! It's preposterous! It's too funny." "But seriously, Austin." "But seriously," he said, with laughing eyes, "such an idea has never penetrated into old Dick's wooden skull. You dear women are always making up romance.
With a heavy tread Louis came forth, walked loudly across the corridor, knocked at Lady Constantine's door, and called 'Viviette! She heard him instantly, replying 'Yes' in startled tones. Immediately afterwards she opened her door, and confronted him in her dressing-gown, with a light in her hand. 'What is the matter, Louis? she said. 'I am greatly alarmed. Our visitor is missing. 'Missing?
"It would be kinder." "I stick to the birthday idea. It would be more dramatic." "The damned villain!" Dick muttered. "I want to-day," said Viviette. "And I want to-morrow." "You speak as if you were my lord and master," said Viviette, in the mocking tones Dick knew so well. "No other man shall be if I can help it." The clear, young masterful voice rang down the gallery.
How can I be with you day after day without loving you, hungering for you, wanting you, body and soul? I've never given a thought to another woman in my life. You're my heart's blood, dear. I want to hold you so tight in my arms that not the ghost of another man can ever come between us. You know it." Viviette shredded an apple blossom that had fallen into her lap.
But it may not be till late in the evening. With this she started, and reached Warborne in time for the up-train. How much longer than it really is a long journey can seem to be, was fully learnt by the unhappy Viviette that day. The changeful procession of country seats past which she was dragged, the names and memories of their owners, had no points of interest for her now.
"Aren't you pleased, Katherine?" he asked with a man's selfishness. "I suppose I must be for your sake. But I must also sigh a little. I knew you would be falling in love sooner or later only I hoped it would be later. But que veux-tu? It is the doom of all such friendships." "I don't see anything like a doom about it, my dear," said he. "The friendship will continue. Viviette loves you dearly."
Everyone shall know the truth. At any rate, it will save her from this." "I will do it quietly, later, Dick." "Let me be, I tell you," said Dick, with great, clumsy, passionate gesture. "Let's have no more lies." He turned to Viviette. "You wrote me a letter. You said you loved me would marry me come out to Vancouver the words made me drunk with happiness at first. You saw me.
"But, Dick, dear," said Viviette, all that was wickedly feminine in her shouting her sex's triumph song, "I want a longer time to choose between two hats!" Dick stamped his foot. "Then Austin has been robbing me! I'm growing desperate, Viviette, tell me now. Choose." He seized her arms in his strong hands. She felt a delicious little thrill of fear.
Viviette carried over her shoulder a sunshade lined with red, which she twirled idly. They were laughing and chatting gaily, and when the group approached the churchyard many of their remarks entered the silence of the church tower through the ventilator of the window. The conversation was general, yet interesting enough to Swithin.
"Viviette!" he cried, with sudden hope. "No. Shut your eyes. Turn round. Now tell me," she continued, when he had turned obediently, "just what I've got on. No!" she held him by the shoulders, "you're not to move." Now, she was wearing a white blouse and a blue skirt and tan shoes, and a yellow rose was pinned at her bosom. "What dress am I wearing?" "A light-coloured thing," said Dick.
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