Yours ever,
FRANK HURRELL
Arthur, having read this letter twice, put it in an envelope and left it
without comment for Miss Boyd. Her answer came within a couple of hours:
'I've asked him to tea on Wednesday, and I can't put him off. You must
come and help us; but please be as polite to him as if, like most of us,
he had only taken mental liberties with the Ten Commandments.'
7
On the morning of the day upon which they had asked him to tea, Oliver
Haddo left at Margaret's door vast masses of chrysanthemums. There were
so many that the austere studio was changed in aspect. It gained an
ephemeral brightness that Margaret, notwithstanding pieces of silk hung
here and there on the walls, had never been able to give it. When Arthur
arrived, he was dismayed that the thought had not occurred to him.
'I'm so sorry,' he said. 'You must think me very inconsiderate.'
Margaret smiled and held his hand.
'I think I like you because you don't trouble about the common little
attentions of lovers.'
'Margaret's a wise girl,' smiled Susie.
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