There was something about their
greeting and the tone of Annabel’s exclamation which puzzled her. “It was a bad day for me,” he said, speaking slowly and painfully. What
might it have been?’
Mrs Sindlesham shook her head helplessly. ‘You
said?’
‘Mrs Sindlesham, your great-aunt, miss. “MY DEAR MISS STANLEY,” it began,—“I hope you will forgive my
bothering you with a letter, but I have been thinking very much over our
conversation at Lady Palsworthy’s, and I feel there are things I want to say to
you so much that I cannot wait until we meet again. “I’ve been following you for many years. He returned, \"Can I walk you
home then?\"
She was completely taken aback and did her best not
to show it. At the expiration of an hour, by dint of
unremitting exertion, he had made so large a breach in the chimney, that he
could stand upright in it. Was
the young lady impatient for experience? Was she adventurous? As a man of the
world he did not think it becoming to accept maidenly calm as anything more
than a mask. Even in her own sorry skin-and-bones state of
wraithlike pallor and gray under eye circles she was
drawing unwanted attention from would-be admirers. ’
To his intense satisfaction, mademoiselle burst into laughter.
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