"
"Yes, I do know. I know everything!"
The declaration sprang from her lips in a tone which made him look at
her as he had never looked before, as if he saw something new in her
face, as if he had never yet known her. He hadn't displeased her so
much but that she would like to give him that impression, and since
she felt that she was doing so she lingered an instant for the
purpose. It enabled her to see, further, that he turned red; then to
become aware that a carriage had stopped at the door. Captain Jay's
eyes, from where he stood, fell upon this arrival, and the nature of
their glance made Rose step forward to look. Her mother sat there,
brilliant, conspicuous, in the eternal victoria, and the footman was
already sounding the knocker. It had been no part of the arrangement
that she should come to fetch her; it had been out of the question--a
stroke in such bad taste as would have put Rose in the wrong. The
girl had never dreamed of it, but somehow, suddenly, perversely, she
was glad of it now; she even hoped that her grandmother and her aunt
were looking out upstairs.
"My mother has come for me. Good-bye," she repeated; but this time
her visitor had got between her and the door.
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