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Lousteau could not fail to see Dinah's great superiority over the best women of Sancerre; she was better dressed, her movements were graceful, her complexion was exquisitely white by candlelight in short, she stood out against this background of old faces, shy and ill-dressed girls, like a queen in the midst of her court.
When I awoke in the morning it was to lie quietly, and listen to the doleful voice of Sabra, for such had been Dinah's Congo name, uplifted in what she called a "speritual" as she cleaned the brass mountings of the grate and kindled its tardy fires.
Well, prepare for a nasty shock! To Rose de Vigne!" "To Rose!" Indignation gave place to bewilderment in Dinah's eyes. "Even so; to Rose. She guessed the truth, and he frankly admitted she was right, but gave her to understand that as he hadn't a chance in the world, you were never to know. I am telling you the truth, Dinah. You needn't look so incredulous.
Whenever my trouble was greater than I could bear, he was always there to help me. He never left me; and gradually he became so necessary to me that I couldn't contemplate life without him. I have been terribly selfish." A low sob checked her utterance for a moment, and Dinah's young arms tightened. "I let my grief take hold of me to the exclusion of everything else.
Have you told Dinah about the invitation to the de Vignes's, Eustace?" "No! They haven't asked you for the wedding surely!" Dinah's thoughts were instantly diverted. "Have they really? I never thought they would. Oh, that will be fun! I expect Rose is trying to pretend she isn't " She broke off, colouring vividly. "What a pig I am!" she said apologetically to Scott. "Please forget I said that!"
Dinah went out on the back stoop, looked around and came running back to the dining room, where Mrs. Bobbsey was. Dinah's eyes were big with wonder and surprise. "Mrs. Bobbsey! Mrs. Bobbsey!" she cried. "Suffin's done gone an' happened!" "What is it?" asked Mamma Bobbsey, quickly. "Is anyone hurt?"
I know at home it's just like being in a cage. Nothing ever happens worth mentioning. And then quite suddenly the door is opened and out we come. That's partly why I am enjoying everything so much," she explained. "But it won't be a bit nice going back." "What about your mother?" said Scott. Dinah's bright face clouded again. "Yes, of course, there's Mother," she agreed.
Colonel de Vigne, white-moustached and martial, sat at the table with them, but neither Lady Grace nor Rose was present. The Colonel's face was stern. He occupied himself with letters with scarcely so much as a glance for the boy and girl on either side of him. There was a letter by Dinah's plate also, but she had not opened it. Her downcast face was very pale.
And then he went on to tell of his interview with Cedric, and his total want of success. "I could do nothing," he went on despondently; "I seem to have lost my influence with him. I did my best, Miss Templeton," with an appealing look at Dinah's sad, sweet face; but it was Elizabeth who answered him.
So the little man always evaded his wife, while she always hit out, as it were, ten feet above his head. Dinah's fits of fury when she saw herself condemned never to escape from La Baudraye and Sancerre are more easily imagined than described she who had dreamed of handling a fortune and managing the dwarf whom she, the giant, had at first humored in order to command.
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