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So the dusk swallowed up his slim figure, and she was left by herself on the cliff. After a while a couple came along closely entwined and when they were close on her the girl said with a start: "Carrie? Is that you all by yourself? Where's Wilf?" "Oh, he is a bit further on," said Caroline, striving to make her voice sound casual. "Don't you stop for me." "All right!
Now as he strode away into the dark he swore to himself that he was satisfied; he would never let himself go again; that he would be faithful to Laura in thought and deed. As for Caroline well, he remembered that she had walked out with a young man named Wilf; probably with others before that.
"I do think it is most awfully kind and generous of you to want to give me a ring. But I feel as if I would rather not have one." "Well, have it your own way, of course. Only I can't make all this out," said Wilf. "If you didn't fancy me for a husband you might have found out before. You've had plenty of time." "But I never did think of you as a husband, somehow," said Caroline.
'Well, it has been rather hard to keep him occupied away from books. He has been riding a good deal, and smoking a good deal. 'And talking a good deal? 'Well, yes, Wilf is fond of talking, admitted Mrs. Rossall, 'but I don't think he's anything like as positive as he was. He does now and then admit that other people may have an opinion which is worth entertaining.
She stopped to speak to Caroline and without knowing why, Caroline felt as if a cold wind out of the future had blown drearily across her mind. "Waiting for Wilf?" asked the girl, smiling. "He must have missed you, for I met him a minute ago. I suppose you are going to this new play there is on at the Cinema." "Oh, I don't know," said Caroline vaguely. "I don't see much of Wilf now.
I have studied her since we came here, and with well, with these results. Mr. Athel looked up with grave sadness. 'Wilf, this is a deeply unfortunate thing, my boy. I grieve over it more than I can tell you. I am terribly disappointed. Your position and your hopes pointed to very different things. You have surprised me, too; I thought your mind was already made up, in quite a different quarter.
'Why, yes, he answered now, 'it does trouble me, and not a little. I very strongly advise you to put an end to it. Let her sing in her friends' houses; there's no objection to that. But to have her name on great heavens! on placards! No, no; it must stop, Wilf. Every day it becomes more imperative. Your position demands that she should become a private lady.
That kiss at the gate still hovered in the back of her consciousness, waiting for a fuller realization; but it had left her fluttering and tingling with emotion, so that she was less mistress of herself than usual. Not that she had not been kissed before, and by others besides Wilf; but it had never been like this, because now for the first time a kiss woke a response which bewildered her.
Wilf came past, taking long strides and wearing a new hat which he removed slightly; giving a sideways, condescending nod which said as plainly as words: "If you're waiting for me, miss, it's no go!" But though she nodded in return, she was not actually aware of him. Her heart beat unevenly and she felt a suspense which ran through every nerve and every vein she had no feeling beyond it.
'If I were you, Wilf, she said, 'I'd go off somewhere for the day. The twins will only worry you. Wilfrid laughed. 'I am going to eat unexampled chops at the "Waggoner" in Hilstead, he replied. 'That's right. Good-bye, my dear boy. I wish you'd get fatter. 'Pooh, I'm all right. The landau rolled away. Wilfrid still loitered in the hall, a singular look of doubt on his face.
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