35/38 And he asks that she come to Fair View morning after morning until the house is in order. Mistress Deborah will much oblige him, he says, and he will not forget her kindness." Somewhat out of breath, but very happy, she looked with eager eyes from one guardian to the other. Darden emptied and refilled his pipe, scattering the ashes upon the book of jests. "Very good," he said briefly. In her way, when she was not in a passion, she was fond of Audrey; but, in temper or out of temper, she was fonder of the fine things which for a few days she might handle at Fair View house. |