”
It occurred to her that she had never seen her father dining out before, never
watched him critically as an equal. They took their places at a distant table. Pragmar, the wholesale druggist, who lived three gardens away, and who had
been mowing his lawn to get an appetite for dinner, standing in a fascinated
attitude beside the forgotten lawn-mower and watching her intently. "You needn't gag me," he added, "I'll not cry out. The heroism of two beach combers had
saved all on board and their own manhood as well. "
"Never!" rejoined Kneebone, with increased ardour,—"never, till I receive from
your own lips the answer which is to make me the happiest or the most
miserable of mankind. I didn’t dream, not even in my wildest
dreaming, that—you might have any need of me. She wanted to think of him as her
beloved person, to be near him and watch him, to have him going about, doing
this and that, saying this and that, unconscious of her, while she too remained
unconscious of herself. ” She said with a
smile. "
"I ought to add," continued Winifred, "that one of her shoes was picked up in the
garden, and that prints of her feet were discovered along the soft mould; whether
made in flying from any one, or from rushing forth in distracted terror, it is
impossible to say. ”
Lights went on inside the house on the upper level.
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