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tween Miss varney's eyes as she
closed the door and went up to him.
"She isn't a bit as I pictured her.
David. II you remember, Monty
Fisher described her as very pretty,
and rather-common, didn't he ?
Well. I don't call her pretty, do
you? And she's a lady to her finger
tips"
David shrugged his shoulders.
| "Oh. think she is pretty he
said nonchalantly. "Or she would
be If she didn't look so sad: and
she's most certainly a lady,"
She adored poor Nigel; upstairs
| just now, she put her arms around
my neck and began to cry like a
child when l spoke apout him.
Il shouldn't speak of him too
much If l were you; it doesn't give
her a chance to get over it. The
thing Is to try and tixe her thoughts
off the subject, don't you think? OF
course. don't mean that want her
to forget himAbut-you under
stand?"
"I suppose 1t is the best thing to
do. Poor child. David, didn't you
tell me her name was Dolly?"
"I-er-I really forget; why?"
II asked her what she would like
me to call her, and she said Mary
but l am sure you said that her
name was Dolly"
Nigel wrote about her as Dolly;
perhaps 1t was a sort of nickname"
David had half turned away, and
was looking down into the fire.
II shall call her Mary, anyway"
Miss Varney asserted. THE other
doesn't seem to suit her at all.
Dolly!" she made a little mouth.
One thinks of babyish-lo
girl, not anyone in the least like
Mary"
David looked around smiling.
Are your"
Il am sure shall. There's some-
thing about her" she broke on. II
suppose you'll be calling me an i'm
pressionable old woman?"
David put out his hand and took
hers.
Il think you're the best woman in
the world" he said; and, STOPPING,
gave her a hearty kiss.
Miss Varney smiled, we'll pleased.
She adored her tall nephew; it was
her greatest happiness to hear him
say that he did not know what he
should do without her.
She walked to the door and came
back.
David" she said in a half whis-
per, you're not to dress for dinner
tonight; don't think Mary has any
evening frocks."
II don't suppose she has; they
must have led a very quiet life by
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room?"
She said it was lovely; she had
never seen it before. When she
came with Nigel, they only went
round the grounds. and through the
downstairs rooms. You must show
her all over the house tomorrow"
IF she cares to go"
If she cares to! Why, she's as
proud of being a Bretherton as you
are! She thinks they're most won
derful race. Do you really mean to
nave her portrait added to the gall
lery. dear?"
IF she will allow me to; all the
Brethertons and their wives are
there"
She is a widow, poor child" said
Miss Varney. signing.
David made no comment, and she
went softly away. closing the door.
BY dinner time Mary seemed to
have recovered something of her
cheeriness; there was a little white
added to the sombre black of her
frock, and she was not so pale.
AS David sat at the head of the
table, the light from the shaded
lamp falling on his face, she could
see again that odd, uncertain like
ness to his dead brother that had to
upset her that night at the fiat; it
made her feel fanciful; it almost
seemed as il Nigel were a living
presence in the room, watching her,
perfectly conscious of what she was
doing.
She woke from hcr dreaming with
a little start.
David was speaking to her; his
eyes met hers with that half depre-
eating. half sympathtic expression
which she could not quite fathom.
did you know we had a ghost
here? Did Nigel tell you?''
Mary shook her head; a faint
gleam of interest crossed her face.
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