If it did him no good it couldn't do
him any harm; and there is the chance that Greene would take an interest
in him."
Deleah said with an averted head that that would be very good of him; and
making him a grave little bow hurried away.
CHAPTER XXI
In For It!
"I shall keep out of his way for a day or two--put up at the Royal instead
of going home," Reggie had explained to Bessie in the quarter of an hour
he was _tete-a-tete_ with her before Deleah came in. "By the time he sees
me again he'll have forgotten all about finding me here."
"I suppose you don't see that all this fuss about being 'found' in our
house is not very complimentary to us?" Bessie said.
"Oh hang!" said Reggie. "How can I help it if he objects? You all know
very well you're good enough for me."
He was not a clever nor a tactful young man, although quite good-natured.
He did not intend to offend, and never understood why he sometimes did so.
Bessie was "touchy," as he often declared, but she bore no malice. So long
as she had the young man dangling around, so long as she could dress for
him, put on her long mauve ribbons for him, do up her hair for him in a
chignon whose dimensions should surpass those of any other chignon in
Brockenham, so long as Emily continued to make him the subject for her
winks and nods and innuendoes, she lived in her Paradise and was fairly
content.
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