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He walked straight up the slope of the island and disappeared over the crest of the hill. "Gone to change his clothes," said Priscilla. The two ladies repacked the hold-all. Jimmy Kinsella stowed it in the bow of Flanagan's boat. Then the lady of the island got it out again, unpacked it once more, and took something out of it. "Clean pocket-handkerchief, I expect," said Priscilla.
'Well, really, Daddy! said the expression on Mother's face and hands and knitting-needles, 'you are splendid to-day'; but aloud she only repeated her little hold-all phrase, 'Why not? Yet somehow he recognised that she understood him better than usual. Her language had not changed things in Mother worked slowly, from within outwards as became her solid personality but it held new meaning.
Pennefather climbed over the bows of the Tortoise. Lady Isabel tugged at the hold-all, which was tucked away under a thwart and heaved it with a great effort into her husband's arms. He staggered under the weight of it. Joseph Antony Kinsella's instinctive politeness asserted itself. "Will you let me take that from you?" he said. "The like of them parcels isn't fit for your reverence to carry."
She went down, flushed and light-hearted, to the Widgetts' after lunch to make some final arrangements and then, as soon as her aunt had retired to lie down for her usual digestive hour, took the risk of the servants having the enterprise to report her proceedings and carried her bag and hold-all to the garden gate, whence Teddy, in a state of ecstatic service, bore them to the railway station.
Blindly she ran to another door which led into the sitting-room of the matron, used for many purposes the hold-all of the odds and ends of the hospital life; where surgeons consulted, officers waited, and army authorities congregated for the business of the hospital. She found the door, opened it and entered hastily. One light was burning a lamp with a green shade.
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