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'And there's the last of it, added Miss Barfoot. 'Let us kiss and be friends. When Barfoot made his next evening call Rhoda did not appear. He sat for some time in pleasant talk with his cousin, no reference whatever being made to Miss Nunn; then at length, beginning to fear that he would not see her, he inquired after her health. Miss Nunn was very well, answered the hostess, smiling.
Then he would raise her, and seat her in the place of honour, and fall down at her feet, and fill her soul with rapture. Many times between Seascale and London he smiled in anticipation of that hour. Whilst the rain pelted, and it did so until afternoon, Rhoda sat in her little parlour, no whit less miserable than Barfoot imagined.
'But I gather that he hasn't changed much. 'Not in theories, replied Miss Barfoot. 'That isn't to be expected. He is far too stubborn. But in mode of life he may possibly be more tolerable. 'After two or three years in Japan, rejoined Rhoda, with a slight raising of the eyebrows. 'He is about three-and-thirty, and before he left England I think he showed possibilities of future wisdom.
Barfoot bent towards her as if speaking in an undertone, a smile on his face. Monica looked at once pleased and troubled. The blood boiled in his veins. His first impulse was to walk straight up to Monica and bid her follow him. But the ecstasy of jealous suffering kept him an observer. He watched the pair until he was descried. There was no help for it.
'How do you know that she is wrong? 'Because I am convinced that you must be right. I respect Mary's judgment, but I respect yours still more. Rhoda raised her head and smiled. 'That compliment, she said, 'pleases me less than the one you have uttered without intending it. 'You must explain. 'You said that by making Miss Barfoot see she was wrong you could alter her mind towards me.
She laughed, and laid the letter and its violets away with the other. 'I must depend on you, it seems, for news of Everard, said Miss Barfoot after dinner. 'I can only tell you, Rhoda answered lightly, 'that he has travelled from the south of France to the north of Italy, with much observation of female countenances. 'He informs you of that? 'Very naturally. It is his chief interest.
He shook hands, and left the room. In the hall Miss Barfoot came to meet him; they exchanged a few words, unimportant and without reference to what had passed between him and Rhoda. Nor did Rhoda speak of the matter when joined by her friend. She retired early, having settled all the arrangements for her departure by the ten o'clock express from Euston next morning.
Barfoot sincerely for the trouble he had so kindly taken. 'I see you limit me to ten miles a day. In such scenery of course one doesn't hurry on, but I can't help informing you that twenty miles wouldn't alarm me. I think it very likely that I shall follow your itinerary, after my week of bathing and idling. I leave on Monday week. Barfoot did not call again.
The day before he had me watched I thought I had left him forever. I thought that if I went back to the house again it would only be to get a few things that I needed. It was some one who lived in the same building as Mr. Barfoot. You have met him She raised her eyes for an instant, and they encountered the listener's.
'But we know several who will not dream of marrying unless reason urges them as strongly as inclination. Miss Barfoot laughed. 'Pray, who ever distinguished in such a case between reason and inclination? 'You are most unusually sceptical to-day, said Rhoda, with an impatient laugh. 'No, my dear. We happen to be going to the root of things, that's all. Perhaps it's as well to do so now and then.
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