Ye gods! what a
wilderness it is! Every one trying to get the better of every one, every one
regardless of every one—it’s one of those days when every one bumps against
you—every one pouring coal smoke into the air and making confusion worse
confounded, motor omnibuses clattering and smelling, a horse down in the
Tottenham Court Road, an old woman at the corner coughing dreadfully—all the
painful sights of a great city, and here you come into it to take your chances. ”
Part 4
They sat with tea and strawberries and cream before them at a little table in
front of the pavilion in Regent’s Park. At noon the doctor himself arrived. Did I not say so, Hilary?’
Melusine’s glance shot across to the newcomer, and found a petite blonde
standing there, very fashionably attired in a velvet mantel over an apple-green
robe, the furred hood framing a face alive with mischief. We two just love each other—the real, identical other—all the
time. I dared not sing, I dared not laugh, except
when you went away. "Never heard of a sing-song girl; never heard of a geisha! Flower of the
Lotus: the sing-song girl called her that. Also he
had said—laughing in that way with his eyes which made a flutter in her chest—
that Prudence will find an Englishman to marry her. It might as well be Melusine
herself. So he shut his eyes. Father and daughter
regarded each other warily, each more than a little insecure with the other. He turned round
toward her and found her looking at him and standing very still. He laughed. "
"That was my doing, dearest," urged the carpenter; "I was afraid if you saw her
that some such scene as this might occur. Rats and things crawling all over.
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