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Because I may want to go with Wilf he's my friend, you know to one of those dances on the prom., and then I shouldn't be back until after twelve." "Yes, I understand," said Miss Ethel. "I'm much obliged to you," she forced herself to add, trying to rise above the dizziness which made her unable to think clearly.
There's the church clock striking a quarter to eleven. We must have been three-quarters of an hour coming from the prom. here. I know Miss Ethel goes to bed at ten, and she'll have been sitting up for me." "Never mind. You're only stopping to oblige. They ought to be jolly thankful to you, whatever time you turn up," babbled Wilf all impatient excitement. "Carrie, just one more. I must "
"Of course she does," said Caroline, still rather defiant. "I'm not ashamed of it. There's nothing between me and Wilf that I should want to hide from Aunt Creddle."
'I am not sure of that, was the rejoinder, almost irritably uttered. 'What do you mean by that, father? Wilfrid asked in a lower tone. 'I mean, Wilf, that I am not yet in the frame of mind to regard the children's governess as my daughter-in-law. Miss Hood may be all you say; I would not willingly be anything but scrupulously just.
'Do you know, Wilf, your tendency is to stoutness; in a few years you will be portly, if you live too sedentary a life. He looked annoyed, and by so doing gratified her. She proceeded. 'What do you think I overheard one of our spectacled friends say this morning "Sehen Sie mal," you were walking at a little distance "da haben Sie das Muster des englischen Aristokraten.
I'm going to get the ring to-morrow, Carrie, so you'd better lend me that old one of your mother's you have on, for a measure. I aren't going to ask you what stones you'd like, because I shall get diamonds. A dress ring without diamonds is nothing, and I mean my wife to have the best." "Diamonds! Oh, Wilf!" said Carrie. But the first glow of surprise and pleasure passed almost before it was there.
"Wilson!" said Wilf. "What's he to do with it, I should like to know. He doesn't seem to me to bother much about the old girls as a rule." Then certain vague memories of that dance in the promenade hall which had not been entirely obliterated by Wilson's skilful treatment came back with renewed vividness. "I see what it is; he's after you himself.
But he searched his mind in vain for the recollection of a girl at that little window in the pay-box who could by any magic of clothes and swaying steps be transformed even for five minutes into a nymph on fire. But Wilf came up and he had to let her go felt, indeed, no particular desire to detain her; for Caroline greeted her admirer with such real relief that he had no doubt of her feelings.
"I aren't gone on him," said Caroline angrily. "A man I hardly know. You must have got a bee in your bonnet, Wilf." "I may, or I may not, but I'm not going to have my future wife conduct herself in a silly style without saying a word," he answered with youthful pomposity. "Your wife! It hasn't got to that yet," said Caroline.
But as the water would not boil all at once she stood there watching the little blue and yellowish flames of that unsatisfactory Thorhaven gas splutter under the kettle. All sorts of thoughts went scurrying about her mind as the clock measured the seconds tick-tock! tick-tock! over her head. How silly of Wilf to begin to talk about marrying at all.
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