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He characteristically made no comments about her omission to mention a husband when she saw him at Melbourne, and remarked that they would be very pleased to see her and her husband any time at Wooratonga. When he proved his unquestioning kindness she wished she had not had to ask him for money. That night they packed. There was a new lodger downstairs who proved very helpful.
"Why should he do it any more than me?" Mrs. King thought she was mad. But now she felt that they must get away from Mrs. King, from everyone. She began to shape her letter to her uncle in her mind, and as she did so, realized that she and Louis would be alone together no longer. They would join the communal life at Wooratonga.
And I'm afraid I'll have to do a little evasion. I don't know him at all, but he may think it his duty to see that I go with him to Wooratonga. Or he may enquire into your prospects like uncles do " "Good God!" he said, throwing his cigarette overboard and staring straight at her in horror. "I hadn't thought of that."
It did not occur to her that Uncle Philip might be dead, or have left Wooratonga; with Lashcairn high-handedness to quote Wullie she expected all the world to do her bidding.
It's a hard life I had no time to tell your aunt the many disadvantages, for she said you'd started when she cabled." Marcella saw quite well that she was not wanted and felt immensely relieved that there was no necessity for her to go to Wooratonga. Haltingly and stumblingly she asked him for the money, without telling him Louis's chain of lies at all. He took little notice of what she said.
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