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But the queerest part of his vision came when Wade sent him out in a Bath-chair to get fresh air. The Davidsons hired a chair, and got that deaf and obstinate dependant of theirs, Widgery, to attend to it. Widgery's ideas of healthy expeditions were peculiar.
"Really?" said Billie, and Sam blinked and told himself resolutely that this would not do. He was not appearing to advantage. It suddenly occurred to him that his hair was standing on end as the result of his struggle with Widgery. He smoothed it down hastily, and felt a trifle more composed. The old fighting spirit of the Marlowes now began to assert itself to some extent.
He's so egotistical, is Dangle. Always wants to mismanage everything himself." "He means to help me," said Mrs. Milton, a little reproachfully, touching his arm. Widgery was hardly in the mood to be mollified all at once. "He need not prevent ME," he said, and stopped. "It's no good talking, you know, and you are tired." "I can go on," she said brightly, "if only we find her."
Widgery coughed. "What HAS all this to do with me?" asked Jessie, availing herself of the interruption. "The point is," said Mrs. Milton, on her defence, "that in my books " "All I want to do," said Jessie, "is to go about freely by myself. Girls do so in America. Why not here?" "Social conditions are entirely different in America," said Miss Mergle. "Here we respect Class Distinctions."
Both Dangle and Widgery thought Phipps a bit of a cub, and Phipps thought both Dangle and Widgery a couple of Thundering Bounders. "They would have got to Chichester in time for lunch," said Dangle, in the train. "After, perhaps. And there's no sufficient place in the road.
In the garden behind, in an attitude of nervous prostration, Mr. Hoopdriver was seated on a rustic seat. Through the open window of a private sitting-room came a murmur of voices, as of men and women in conference. Occasionally something that might have been a girlish sob. "I fail to see what status Widgery has," says Dangle, "thrusting himself in there."
It ran thus: "At ten minutes after two o'clock last night P.C. Widgery, on night duty at Brixham, saw a man on a motor bicycle with a large parcel behind him run through the town square. He proceeded down the main street and was gone for the best part of an hour; but, before three o'clock, Widgery saw him return without his parcel. He went fast up the hill out of Brixham, the way he came.
"Very well," said Jessie, swallowing a sob but with unusual resolution. "Then I won't go back. My life is being frittered away " "LET her have her way," said Widgery. "A room then. All your Men. I'm not to come down and talk away half my days " "My dear child, if only to save you," said Mrs. Milton. "If you don't keep your promise "
"Only tell me your news," he said, round the corner of the handkerchief. "It was in this way," said Phipps, and explained rather sheepishly. While he was doing so, with a running fire of commentary from Widgery, the waiter brought in a tray of tea. "A time table," said Dangle, promptly, "for Havant." Mrs. Milton poured two cups, and Phipps and Dangle partook in passover form.
Even now, it seems to me, your present emotion is due not so much to a real and sincere penitence for your disobedience and folly as to a positive annoyance at our most fortunate interference " "Not that," said Mrs. Milton, in a low tone. "Not that." "But WHY did she go off like this?" said Widgery. "That's what I want to know." Jessie made an attempt to speak, but Mrs.
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