This time it was Lady Medchester who narrowly
escapeddisaster over a bit of biscuit. Ah, thats the question, Pat, said Uncle Tom
mysteriously. She bade them all good-bye cheerily and drewPat aside for a few
whispered sentences. Merridew whisked Uncle Tom off to the
LittleParlour.
Pat was sitting on a log in the silver bush one
evening .
Everything had been the same there for years. Shes
expecting me to propose to her again, Patsy, he said, aftera long
silence.
Excitement always brings on a pain in my
heart.
Some one came along the path and sat down beside
her with a heavysigh. Come out to the graveyard, whispered Judy to the
girls.
Aunt Hazel was hot in his favour but Judy, for a
wonder,was not.
Thank the Good Man Above for that, said Judy
devoutly.
Niver did I live through such anafternoon in me
life. It was a mans own concern, symbolicallyspeaking, and wimmen critters had no
right to interfere.
Gentleman Tom said nothing, as was his habit, but
McGinty crawledunder the kitchen lounge. Alienation from Swallowfield
wasunthinkable.
It was a mans own concern, symbolicallyspeaking,
and wimmen critters had no right to interfere.
Uncle Tomburst out with the truth explosively
I cant believe Uncle Tom will really be so foolish
at his age,said Pat.
In the eveningsshe went driving with Uncle Tom or
sat with him in the moonlightgarden. Shell think thisturn-out very old-fashioned. In
vain Patassured them she had done nothing.
In vain Patassured them she had done nothing. It
never occurred to Dwight that any girl would want tosnub him.
When you light it you make an enemy of the dark.
Girls dear, niver did I be hearing av such a thing.
Uncle Tom, still voiceless, brought up the
rear.
I opine theres a female in the wind, speaking
symbolically,said Tillytuck. And it doesnt reallymake any difference, Aunt Edith. I
think shes very tired of facing theworld alone, poor little thing.