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CHAPTER VIII
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She reached home in the evening. She thought to find her father in his study. But they told her that, now, he usually sat alone in the great drawing-room. She opened the door softly. The room was dark save for a flicker1 of firelight; she could see nothing. Nor was there any sound.
“Dad,” she cried, “are you here?”
He rose slowly from a high-backed chair beside the fire.
“It is you,” he said. He seemed a little dazed.
She ran to him and, seizing his listless arms, put them round her.
“Give me a hug, Dad,” she commanded. “A real hug.”
He held her to him for what seemed a long while. There was strength in his arms, in spite of the bowed shoulders and white hair.
“I was afraid you had forgotten how to do it,” she laughed, when at last he released her. “Do you know, you haven’t hugged me, Dad, since I was five years old. That’s nineteen years ago. You do love me, don’t you?”
“Yes,” he answered. “I have always loved you.”
She would not let him light the gas. “I have dined—in the train,” she explained. “Let us talk by the firelight.”
She forced him gently back into his chair, and seated herself upon the floor between his knees. “What were you thinking of when I came in?” she asked. “You weren’t asleep, were you?”
“No,” he answered. “Not that sort of sleep.” She could not see his face. But she guessed his meaning.
“Am I very like her?” she asked.
“Yes,” he answered. “Marvellously like her as she used to be: except for just one thing. Perhaps that will come to you later. I thought, for the moment, as you stood there by the door . . . ” He did not finish the sentence.
“Tell me about her,” she said. “I never knew she had been an actress.”
He did not ask her how she had learnt it. “She gave it up when we were married,” he said. “The people she would have to live among would have looked askance at her if they had known. There seemed no reason why they should.”
“How did it all happen?” she persisted. “Was it very beautiful, in the beginning?” She wished she had not added that last. The words had slipped from her before she knew.
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landlady
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