The Craze of Christina — page 127: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. £23. “Oh, but indeed I did, Miss Ashley.’’ “‘Then he could not have answered ‘All right!’ ”’ “‘Oh, but he did. 1am positive he did.”’ ‘Then why did he not come?”’ But Miss Pratt only shrugged her shoulders at that, and she smiled her brilliant and beau- tiful smile. ‘‘Perhaps he will come to-morrow or the next day,’’ she suggested presently, with an attempt at consolation. 7 Miss Ashley, who was a mild-tempered woman usually, stamped her foot at this. ‘‘How am I to have cakes and cream wasted day after day? Three muffins and a cake and a potful of tea brewed for nothing at all!” Chris laughed and suggested that they should both set to work to eat up the wasted remains —she herself was very hungry, she said. So the two ladies sat down together and | drank the bitter tea and ate up the greasy muffins, and Miss Ashley wept a few tears over a vanished hope, whilst Chris preserved a most — discreet silence concerning the avocations of her own afternoon. But whilst Miss Ashley lamented and be- wailed at intervals during the whole evening, — Chris was unusually silent; only a little smile Comichooks:co.