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"I shouldn't wonder if it was nothing of the kind," replied Mr Greenways. "More likely about the rent." But Mrs Greenways held to her first opinion. It would not be about the rent, for Mrs Leigh never mentioned it to her. No. It was about the present; and very fitting too, when she called to mind how long her husband had been Mr Leigh's tenant.
You can put on your hat and take the children to the waterfall; it will do you all good, for it will be cool down there. I will go to the post, lock the side door, and put the key under the mat." In ten minutes "Greenways" lay still and peaceful once more among its trees, as if no Serenade had ever troubled its repose.
Mrs White had worn it on that last May morning when she had stood at the gate, and it seemed almost a part of her. When her aunt dropped it carelessly on the ground after her last remark, Lilac picked it up and held it closely to her. "And her Sunday bonnet now," continued Mrs Greenways discontentedly.
They take summat off your hands, I s'pose? And that reminds me. There's little White Lilac, as we used to call her, you find her a handy sort of lass, don't you?" "She's well enough in her way," said Mrs Greenways.
Lilac shrank back timidly. It was an honour to be singled out in that way, but it was also most alarming. She looked appealingly at her cousin Bella, who at once came forward. "I don't think she knows any songs alone, sir," she said; "but I'll play something if you like." "Oh, thank you, Miss Greenways," said Mr Martin hastily, "we've had so much playing I think they'd like a song.
She studied her aunt's face wistfully, and found no help there. Mrs Greenways kept complete and gloomy silence on the question. Thrown back upon herself, Lilac's perplexity grew with each day. If she went to sleep with her mind a little settled to one side of the matter, she woke up next morning to see many more advantages on the other.
"So I've come up this morning," pursued Mrs Greenways, producing an old envelope and a stumpy pencil; "just to jot down what I want to keep. And when I've done here, and fetched my breath a little, I'll go upstairs and have a look round." Mrs Greenways made her list, and then with a businesslike air tied pieces of tape on all the things she had chosen.
But there's Mr Snell he was asking for her yesterday when I met him. Let her go tomorrow and spend the day with him." "If there is a busier day than another, it's Thursday," said Mrs Greenways fretfully. "Why, as to that, she's only a child, and makes no differ in the house, as you always say," remarked the farmer; "anyhow, I mean her to go to-morrow, and that's all about it."
Why shouldn't Lilac go? She's sharp enough." There seemed no reason against this, and it was accordingly settled that Lilac should be entrusted with Mrs Greenways' commissions. As she received them, her mind was so full of the dazzling prospect of driving into Lenham with the butter that it was almost impossible to bring it to bear on anything else. It would be like going into the world.
"Lor'! I do wish Mrs Greenways could a heard that," said Mrs Pinhorn; "that'll set Mrs White up more than ever." "It will so," said Mrs Wishing; "she allers did keep herself to herself did Mrs White. Not but what she's a decent woman and a kind. Seems as how, if Mrs Leigh wished to name the child `Lilac', she couldn't do no other than fall in with it. But I dunno."
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