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Will it not be my greatest pleasure to do so, as well as my best and truest work? You may be sure, Miss Phebe, I will do all I can for you, with God's help." "Rather damp for you to be sitting there without a shawl, isn't it, my child?" It was only Mrs. Anthony's friendly voice, as that lady passed hurriedly by, intent on hospitable duties, but Phebe started guiltily.
She was removing her hat before the mirror, and turning quickly as the irate Hugh entered, she cried: "Hello, Hugh! Where have you been, dear?" "Dear! Don't call me dear," he rasped. "Why, Hugh, dear, Mr. Veath looked everywhere for you this morning. I said I would not go unless he could find you. You would have enjoyed it so much." "And you really wanted me?" he asked guiltily.
They were walking self-consciously and almost guiltily near the forward end of the deck-house when they saw Veath approaching far behind. Their speed accelerated, and for half an hour they walked like pedestrians in a racing match, always keeping some distance ahead of poor Veath, who finally, like the sly fox, sat down and waited for them to hurry around and come upon him unexpectedly.
He would consider that she had been tattling secrets just because she could not hold her tongue, and she resented in advance his attitude. Guiltily conscious of having betrayed him, she still believed that she had done him a real service in the betrayal. It was a complicated and uncomfortable state of mind to be in, and Kate's state of mind was not much more complacent.
"Of course," he said. "Of course I'm Darby." For the moment that chance meeting thrilled all the spectators with the sense of monumental drama. The convicts stared; Howard, the second guard, forgot his vigilance and stared with open mouth. He started absurdly, rather guiltily, when the old man whirled toward him. "What are you doing with Ben Darby in a convict gang?" the old wanderer demanded.
As he quitted the grass, the sound of his own footfalls upon firm gravel made him guiltily afraid; and it was not without some moral effort that he, a king in his own domain, kept himself from stepping back secretively to the turfed edge. Suppressing the inclination, he proceeded at a smart pace, and coming presently to the door with a slip-latch on its inner side he opened it and passed through.
Guiltily, with a stealthy look round him, though wood and night were black as ink, he knelt down and kissed the gravel where he thought she had stood.
"Here we are, Billy," greeted Phil. "Oh, so quick?" Billy started guiltily. "That's the way we always do things," answered Teddy. "Have to do things on the jump, we circus men do." "So I see. What are you going to do now?" "Going to the car, of course. We always go right to the sleeper after the show. Why?" "Oh, nothing special.
He was aware that she had trusted him to do away her misgiving. "No, no," he answered, guiltily. "Wiser than I am, always. I I want to talk with you about it, Clementina. I want you to advise me." He felt her shrink from him, and with a pang he opened his arms to free her. But it was right; he must. She had been expecting him to say that there was nothing in her misgiving, and he could not say it.
Rose, having been delayed by the loss of one of her goloshes in a bog, had been once near her and Elsmere during that dripping descent from Shanmoor. They had been so clearly absorbed in one another that she had fled on guiltily to Agnes, golosh in hand, without waiting to put it on; confident, however, that neither Elsmere nor Catherine had been aware of her little adventure.
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