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But the help, offered and accepted in the same spirit, could not go on for long, for Miss Pendarth came home after a four days' absence; and, for the first time in many months, Janet Tosswill made time to pay a formal call at Rose Cottage in order that she might thank her old friend.
And there welled up in Radmore's heart the strangest feeling of tenderness not only for Timmy but for the whole of the Tosswill family not only for the Tosswill family, but for the whole of this sturdy, quiet, apparently unemotional world of England to which he had come back. The human mind and brain work in mysterious ways.
Schoolboys worship a successful athlete. There was a very pleasant mathematical master named Tosswill, always known as "Tosher," who at that time held the record for a broad jump, he having cleared, when jumping for Oxford, twenty-two and a half feet. That record has long since been beaten.
Had Timmy Tosswill not burst into the room in that stupid, inopportune way, Radmore would have certainly taken her in his arms. Though Radmore was no innocent, high-principled boy, even one kiss between them would have altered their whole attitude, the one to the other. She would have seen to that. In her heart she had cursed Timmy for his idiotic intrusion, and now she cursed him again.
Since then she had often congratulated herself on the fact that in the days when the process was comparatively cheap, she had had the scullery walls lined five feet up with black and white tiles matching the linoleum which covered the stone floor. Against this background Betty Tosswill was now standing, a trim, neat figure, in her pink cotton gown and big white apron.
And then they both, together, took their departure; Radmore feeling that he had wasted an hour which might have been so very much more profitably spent in going to see some of his old friends among the cottagers. As to Jack Tosswill, he felt perplexed, and yes, considerably put out and annoyed. He had been a good deal taken aback to see how close was the acquaintance between Mrs.
Tosswill." She was so surprised, so taken aback that for a moment she said nothing. At last she answered very quietly: "Tell Mr. Radmore that Mrs. Tosswill is here waiting on the 'phone."
Without knowing it, Timmy, you've pierced your mother's heart." But even as she uttered these, to Timmy, dreadful words, Janet Tosswill got up, and dried her eyes. "Now then, we must go and see about Josephine being shut up in some place of safety, where she and her kittens will not offend the eyes of Jack and Rosamund. How about the old stable?"
He screwed up his queer little face for a moment, shaded his eyes with his hand, and said quietly: "I think Jack is just starting down the drive now. You'll catch him if you'll open the window and shout to him, Mum it's no good my going after him he wouldn't come back for me." Janet Tosswill got up from her writing-table. She opened the nearest window and, stepping out, looked to her right.
There was a rather painful pause. Janet Tosswill felt as if the child were withdrawing himself from her, both in a physical and in a mental sense. "Mum?" he said in a low, heart-broken voice. "Yes, my dear?" "I want to tell you something." "Yes, Timmy?" "It's I who ought to be shot, not Josephine. It was all my fault. It had nothing to do with her." "I don't know what you mean, Timmy.
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