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CHAPTER 2 THE THIEF’S PLAN WRECKED
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“The fact is,” said Audrey, “father has another woman in the house now.”
Mr. Moze had left Miss Ingate in the study and Audrey had cautiously rejoined her there.
“Another woman in the house!” repeated Miss Ingate, sitting down in happy expectation. “What on earth do you mean? Who on earth do you mean?”
“I mean me.”
“You aren’t a woman, Audrey.”
“I’m just as much of a woman as you are. All father’s behaviour proves it.”
“But your father treats you as a child.”
“No, he doesn’t. He treats me as a woman. If he thought I was a child he wouldn’t have anything to worry about. I’m over nineteen.”
“You don’t look it.”
“Of course I don’t. But I could if I liked. I simply won’t look it because I don’t care to be made ridiculous. I should start to look my age at once if father stopped treating me like a child.”
“But you’ve just said he treats you as a woman!”
“You don’t understand, Winnie,” said the girl sharply. “Unless you’re pretending. Now you’ve never told me anything about yourself, and I’ve always told you lots about myself. You belong to an old-fashioned family. How were you treated when you were my age?”
“In what way?”
“You know what way,” said Audrey, gazing at her.
“Well, my dear. Things seemed to come very naturally, somehow.”
“Were you ever engaged?”
“Me? Oh, no!” answered Miss Ingate with tranquillity1. “I’m vehy interested in them. Oh, vehy! Oh, vehy! And I like talking to them. But anything more than that gets on my nerves. My eldest2 sister was the one. Oh! She was the one. She refused eleven men, and when she was going to be married she made me embroider3 the monograms4 of all of them on the skirt of her wedding-dress. She made me, and I had to do it. I sat up all night the night before the wedding to finish them.”
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orchard
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plantation
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complexion
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caress
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