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CHAPTER XVIII. A VOICE FROM THE CROWD.
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Dolly had been unusually silent during the afternoon, and now, as we turned to retrace1 our steps in the direction of the station from which we were to take train for London, she walked beside me without uttering a word.
Suddenly, however, she put her hand upon my arm and stayed me.
“Renny,” she said, “will you stop a little while? I want to speak to you.”
“All right,” I said; “speak away.”
“Not here—not here. Come off the path; there’s a seat out there.”
Seeing with surprise that her face was pale and drawn2 with nervousness, and fancying our tramp might have over-tired her, I led her to the place she indicated—a bench set in the deep shadow of a chestnut3 tree—and we both sat down.
“Now, Doll,” I said, gayly, “what’s the tremendous confidence?”
“Renny,” she said, quietly, “William Reid has asked me to marry him.”
“No! William Reid—the young fellow over at Hansard’s? Well, I can only tell you, Dolly, that I know nothing but what’s good of him for a steady and promising4 chap, who’s sure to make as fine a husband as he is a workman.”
“Do you advise me to take him, then? Do you want me to?”
“You might do much worse—indeed you might, Dolly. Why, to my knowledge, he’s drawing £3 a week already. Of course I shall be very, very sorry to lose my little chum and companion, but I always foresaw that this would have to be the end of our comradeship some day.”
She sat looking at the ground a little while and adjusting a fallen twig6 with the point of her parasol. Then she rose and said, in the same quiet tone, “Very well,” and moved a step away.
I rose also and was about to resume the subject, when in a moment, to my horror, she threw herself back on the bench and, flinging her hands up to her face, burst into a passion of tears.
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