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But at that moment a footman came towards them, and Mrs Gildea was handed on to an imposing butler and ushered through a wide palm-screened doorway into the large inner hall which had a gallery round it and the big staircase at one end.
But if you'd come with me through the Blue Mountains and caricature yourself exploring the Jenolan Caves like the "Lady of Quality" in the Dolomite Country I could do something with that. Mrs Gildea alluded to their first and only collaboration as author and artist. 'Yes, I might. We'll think about it.
Mrs Gildea was smiling amusedly. 'Perhaps.... Something of that sort. Dignity and sweetness, you know those are what I admire in a woman. But not too much of the goddess or of the angel either. I shouldn't want always to have to load up with a pedestal when we shifted camp, and the only shrine I'd keep going for her would be in my heart.
Mrs Gildea quickly recovered her usual genial demeanour. She poured herself out a cup of tea, and remarked that it was refreshing after the pine-apple syrups and other concoctions she had, as in duty bound, sampled at the Show. Lady Bridget rattled along with questions about the Function and the behaviour of the Government House party. Had Sir Luke been too over-poweringly pompous?
on an envelope, into which she slipped her letter a letter never to be sent. A snap of the gate between the bamboos added a metallic note to the tree's reedy whimperings, and the postman tramped along the short garden path and up the veranda steps. 'Morning, Mrs Gildea ... a heavy mail for you!
Lady Tallant's social manner was rather full of affectations. Underneath it, however, lay commonsense and sympathy. She became suddenly simple and direct. 'Well, now, Mrs Gildea, let us look at the matter without prejudice. You are fond of Biddy and so am I, but we know her drawbacks. Naturally, it wouldn't be a good thing under ordinary conditions, but is she likely to do much better?
You know that by the Brands Act you've got to have a number and two letters on every head of stock My brand's the Mark of the Beast 666 C.K. See? He fixed his cigarette into a new amber mouthpiece, made a wry face, and began to smoke. 'I don't think much of your quality of cigarettes, said Mrs Gildea. 'On the whole, I prefer your tobacco. 'All right.
It's a Mate I'm wanting, as well as an Ideal.... Now you're laughing again. 'No, I'm not. I agree with you entirely and so would SHE. 'There! You needn't tell me. I shouldn't wonder if I'd got the second sight where SHE'S concerned. Again Mrs Gildea smiled enigmatically. 'I shouldn't wonder, Colin. But you haven't finished your personal description. What about the colour of her eyes?
She believed in love and in strange affinities and in hidden threads of destiny all of which ideas fitted beautifully on to Bridget O'Hara's personality, but not at all on to that of Colin McKeith. The first dinner-party given by Sir Luke and Lady Tallant at Government House included Mrs Gildea and Colin McKeith.
You know that was the sting! And it wouldn't have stung so if I hadn't cared. Sometimes I feel the maddest desire to hurt him to pay him out. I never felt like that about any of the others the ones I really did ALMOST want to marry. And then at other times I'd give ANYTHING just to have him again as he used to be. 'I'm certain you weren't really in love with him, exclaimed Mrs Gildea.
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