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Updated: June 3, 2025
"Then," said the joyful Prince Reginald, "I pray thee unlock the cage." Now, as they walked together in the park, the prince told Hildegarde that he had loved her for a twelvemonth and a day. He described Zora's visit to the cruel goblin. He said that he himself had overheard the two talking together, had ground his teeth, and sighed.
It has been before stated that things happen slowly in Nunsmere, even the reawakening of Zora's nostalgia for the Great World and Life and the Secrets of the Earth. But things do happen there eventually, and the time came when Zora found herself once again too big for the little house. She missed Emmy's periodical visits. She missed the regulation of Septimus.
Besides, was he not carrying out Zora's wish? He remembered her words. It would be the greatest pleasure he could give her to become her brother, her real brother. She would approve. And beyond all that, deep down also in his heart he knew it was the only way, the wise, simple, Heaven-directed way.
She started to open the subject again today. But Alwyn, his own mind full, spoke first and rapidly. He, too, had turned to her as he saw her come from Zora's home. He must know more about the girl. He could no longer endure this silence.
"I wonder what I shall make out of her?" queried Mrs. Vanderpool. "Do you know, I believe I could mould her into a lady if she were not black." Mary Cresswell laughed. "With that hair?" "It has artistic possibilities. You should have seen my hair-dresser's face when I told her to do it up. Her face and Zora's were a pantomime for the gods. Yet it was done.
And he laughed, not loud, but murmuringly, for the first time. They went round the Casino to the front of the Hôtel de Paris, their natural parting place. But there, on the steps, with legs apart, stood the wretch with the evil eyes. He looked at her from afar, banteringly. Defiance rose in Zora's soul.
"But how shall I ever repay you?" "Perhaps once a year," he said. "You can settle up in full, as you did just now." There was a long silence and then Emmy remarked that it was a heavenly night. In the course of time Sypher returned to London to fight a losing battle against the Powers of Darkness and derive whatever inspiration he could from Zora's letters.
There also was a light of triumph in Zora's eyes when she entered a few moments afterwards with the tea-tray, which caused Sypher to smile and a wicked feeling of content to enter Septimus's mild bosom. "I think it was high time I came home," she remarked, pouring out the tea. The two men supported the proposition.
I tell you once for all, I hate you, Hildegarde." Was this Zora's return for her cousin's love? The princess would fain have expressed her grief and amazement. "Pray don't try to talk, my bonny wee thing! It is not one of your gifts, at present. Your voice has ceased to be musical. I can sing now as well as you. Go to nibbling grass, deary, and a long life to you!"
There was little she knew of her duties, but little, too, that she could not learn with a deftness and divination almost startling. Her quietness, her quickness, her young strength, were like a soothing balm to the tired woman of fashion, and within a week she had sunk back contentedly into Zora's strong arms. "It's a jewel," she decided. With this verdict, the house agreed.
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