"
And then she drank in with intense delight the flood of eager, exultant
words, uttered with such a rush of joy, and in so triumphant a tone, that
for a moment she thought that they must be heard, if not here, then
there, if not there, then here. But, after all, what did it matter? She
would have left this hateful place for ever to-morrow!
And then came a rather difficult moment. She did not wish to tell her
servants to-night that she was leaving The Trellis House to-morrow, and
yet somehow she must convey that fact to Tremaine.
As if he could see into her mind, there came the eager question, "Can you
come up to-morrow, darling? The sooner, the better, you know--"
She answered, "I will if you like--at the usual time."
He said eagerly, "You mean that train arriving at 12.30--the one I met
you by the other day?"
And again she said, "Yes."
He asked a little anxiously, "How about money, my precious pet? Are you
all right about money?"
For once her hard, selfish heart was touched and she answered truly: "You
need not bother about that."
And then there came a whispered, "Call me darling again, darling."
And she just breathed the word "Darling" into the receiver, making a
vague resolution as she did so that she would be, as far as would be
possible to her, a good wife to this simple-hearted, big baby of a man
who loved her so dearly.
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