Ime to time on short leave
Heir table like a stout, presiding goddess, guiding them gently to the best dishes on the menu, and
occasionally putting aside their
own selection with a hasty, "Mon-non; you vill not like that one
to-day." She patted Cecilia in a motherly fashion
at parting, and their bill was
only about half what it should have been. They found a musical comedy, and laughed their way through it--Billy and Harrison had apparently no cares in the world, and Bob and Cecilia
were caught up in the whirl of their high spirits, so that anything became
a huge joke. The evening flew by on
airy wings, when Billy insisted on taking them to supper after the theatre. Cecilia allowed
herself a fleeting vision of Mrs. Rainham, and then, deciding that she might as well be hanged for
a sheep as a lamb, followed gaily. And supper was so cheery a meal that
she forgot all about time--until, just at the end, she caught sight of the
restaurant clock. "Half-past eleven! Oh, Bobby!" "Well, if it is--you poor little old Cinderella," said Bob. But he hurried her away, for all that, amid a chorus of farewells and
efforts, on the part of Billy and Harrison, to arrange further meetings. They ran to the nearest tube
station, and dived into its depths; and, after being whisked underground
for a few minutes, emerged into the cool night. Cecilia slipped her arm through her brother's as they hurried
along the empty street.
"Now, you keep
your nose in the air," Bobby told her. "You aren't exactly a kid now, and she can't really do anything to you. Oh,
by Jove--I was thinking, in the theatre, she might interfere with our letters." "She's quite equal to it," said Cecilia. "Just what she'd revel in doing. Well,
you can easily find out. I'll write to you to-morrow, and again the next day--just ordinary letters, with nothing particular in them except an arrangement to meet next Saturday.
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