“I was born there. The
spinsters were not kind; they were only curious because she was odd and wore a
dress thirty years out of date. “Won’t you sit down,” she said, “and tell me what you want to say?” Her
voice was flat and faint. Do you know that this becomes a habit?”
“If you would only teach us all,” he murmured, “how to acquire it. But something
instinctive prevented that, and with the finest resolve not to be “silly” and
prudish she found that whenever he became at all bold in this matter she became
severely scientific and impersonal, almost entomological indeed, in her method;
she killed every remark as he made it and pinned it out for examination. Stow it in the
saddle, for I will take it with me. He did not play golf, but took his exercise on
horseback, which was also unsympathetic. Capes—the ‘Capes crave,’ they would
call it in America. Restraining with an effort his
intense curiosity, he talked of general subjects only, trying his best to entertain
her.
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