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That the "disgrace" of such a past clung round herself, Grant's disagreeable eyes would never allow her to forget. Such were poor Hetty's disordered ideas with regard to herself and her little world, when Mrs. Rushton's carriage drew up that day before the door of Wavertree Hall. Mrs.
I can't help wishing you would let her be an artist." "Has she been enlisting you against me?" said Mr. Enderby, with half a smile and half a frown. "I have never even seen her," said Reine; "but I am greatly struck with her work." "It is clever," assented the master of Wavertree; "but pray do not arouse foolish ideas in the child's head ideas which have been fortunately laid to rest.
Rushton's door Hetty was there with her face against the panel. "Oh, Grant, do tell me what is the matter!" she whispered. "Illness is the matter," said Grant. "There! we don't want children in the way at such times. Go up to your bed, miss. You'll be better there than here." "I can't go to bed till I know if she is better," said Hetty. "Why have you sent a message to Wavertree?"
Certainly there were many days when Hetty's presence was wearisome and intolerable to her benefactress, and then she was banished to a large gloomy room at the top of the London house, and left to the tender mercies of a maid, who did not at all forget that she was only Mrs. Kane's little girl from the village of Wavertree, and treated her accordingly.
Enderby, her visitor, and her two daughters were sitting together one morning at needlework in the pretty morning-room looking out on an old walled garden, at Wavertree Hall. The distant ends of this old garden, draped with ivy and creepers, had been made into a tennis ground, a smooth trim green chamber lying behind the brilliant beds of flowers.
Hetty had still less recollection of the Enderby family than of Mrs. Kane, but she felt very much more willing to be introduced to its members than to the cottage woman. Looking upon herself as Mrs. Rushton's only child, she considered the Wavertree children as her cousins and their father and mother as her uncle and aunt. Mrs.
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