" "I am not unprotected," rejoined the poor woman; "there's some one at the window. "He would return my letters unopened or destroy them. And here, we may be permitted to offer an observation upon the peculiar and unaccountable influence which ladies of a shrewish turn so frequently exercise over—we can scarcely, in this case, say—their lords and masters; an influence which seems not merely to extend to the will of the husband, but even to his inclinations. ‘Come, mademoiselle. She went down, flushed and light-hearted, to the Widgetts’ after lunch to make some final arrangements and then, as soon as her aunt had retired to lie down for her usual digestive hour, took the risk of the servants having the enterprise to report her proceedings and carried her bag and hold-all to the garden gate, whence Teddy, in a state of ecstatic service, bore them to the railway station. In the first place there were not so many suitable advertisements as she had expected. I deemed it more prudent to send him to the Dark House than to bring him here, in case of any search after him by his adoptive father—the carpenter Wood. Why on earth couldn’t he leave her to grow in her own way? Her pride rose at the bare thought of return. He looked at it eagerly, but made no movement to take it. Elegant, a little scornful, she leaned slightly against the back of a chair and looked him steadily in the eyes. She munched her bland Whopper as he wolfed three in a row, stuffing his mouth with half a dozen French fries at a time.
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