" And, though the realism of the picture he presented was such as
to make her exclaim, "No! No!" there were still occasional moments when
she breathed a request for pardon if she was hard of heart--this softest
of creatures human.
It was arranged by the two who best knew and loved her that her meeting
with Rosalie should have no spectators, and that their first hour
together should be wholly unbroken in upon.
"You have not seen each other for so long," Betty said, when, on her
arrival, she led her at once to the morning-room where Rosy waited,
pale with joy, but when the door was opened, though the two figures were
swept into each other's arms by one wild, tremulous rush of movement,
there were no sounds to be heard, only caught breaths, until the door
had closed again.
The talks which took place between Mr. Vanderpoel and Lord Mount
Dunstan were many and long, and were of absorbing interest to both. Each
presented to the other a new world, and a type of which his previous
knowledge had been but incomplete.
"I wonder," Mr. Vanderpoel said, in the course of one of them, "if
my world appeals to you as yours appeals to me. Naturally, from your
standpoint, it scarcely seems probable.
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