But, none the less, the margin always allowed her young friend was all there as well; and the proposal now made her what was it in short but Byzantine?
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Susie—she couldn't deny, and didn't pretend to—might, of a truth, on *her* side, have treated such news as a flash merely lurid; as to which, to do Susie justice, the pain of it was all there.
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It was as if they were helping her to take it out on the spot.
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It might, afresh, almost have frightened our young woman to see how people rushed to meet her: *had* she then so little time to live that the road must always be spared her?
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It operated in truth very much as Mrs. Lowder's, at the last, had done the night before: it made the air heavy once more with the extravagance of assent.
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It had taken, naturally, more explanation, and the mention, above all, of the fact that the visitor was the greatest of doctors; yet when once the key had been offered Susie slipped it on her bunch, and her young friend could again feel her lovely imagination operate.
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So do be nice to him."
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He will like that, this time, better.
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He's to be told, please, deceptively, that I'm at home, and, you, as my representative, when he comes up, are to see him instead.
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"Sir Luke Strett comes, by appointment, to see me at eleven, but I'm going out on purpose.
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and although Mrs. Stringham, after breakfast, began by staring at it as if it had been a priceless Persian carpet suddenly unrolled at her feet, she had no scruple, at the end of five minutes, in leaving her to make the best of it.
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That, she was pleased to reflect, had originally been pitched in the key of a merely iridescent drab;
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She settled it, she thought, well enough this morning by quite readopting her plan in respect to Sir Luke Strett.
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She should have to be clear as to how a dove *would* act.
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That, with the new day, was once more her law—though she saw before her, of course, as something of a complication, her need, each time, to decide.
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But left alone with Mrs. Stringham Milly continued to breathe it: she studied again the dovelike and so set her companion to mere rich reporting that she averted all inquiry into her own case.
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The luscious innuendo of it, almost startling, lingered in the room, after the visitors had gone, like an oversweet fragrance.
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"Oh, you exquisite thing!"
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And the word, presently, bettered it still.
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It gave her straightway the measure of the success she could have as a dove: that was recorded in the long look of deep criticism, a look without a word, that Mrs. Lowder poured forth.
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"I don't *think*, dear lady, he's here."
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But Milly's answer had prepared itself while Aunt Maud was on the stair; she had felt in a rush all the reasons that would make it the most dovelike; and she gave it, while she was about it, as earnest, as candid.
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Her "all" had an ample benevolence; it soothed and simplified; she spoke as if it were the two young women, not she and her comrade, who had been facing the town together.
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It was in the tone of the fondest indulgence—almost, really, that of dove cooing to dove—that Mrs. Lowder expressed to Milly the hope that it had all gone beautifully.
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Kate was in other words, as Aunt Maud engaged her friend, listening with the handsomest response to Mrs. Stringham's impression of the scene they had just quitted.
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She had mounted the stairs for this, and she had her moment again with her younger hostess while Kate, on the spot, as the latter at the time noted, gave Susan Shepherd unwonted opportunities.
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Well, the way she did catch was simply to make the point that it didn't now in the least matter.
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She had come up, Mrs. Lowder, with Susan—which she needn't have done, at that hour, instead of letting Kate come down to her; so that Milly could be quite sure it was to catch hold, in some way, of the loose end they had left.
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There was, the next thing, little enough doubt about it after Aunt Maud had been two minutes in the room.
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