She must surely do it from choice, not from necessity;
but why from choice? With her face and her charm--he felt the charm
already; it radiated from her--why should she want to tie herself down
to a dull round of duty like that instead of giving her thoughts to the
things girls of her position usually cared for? Taking into
consideration the statement Ted had lately made about his elder brother,
it struck Richard Kendrick that this must be a family of rather
eccentric notions. Somewhat to his surprise he discovered that the idea
interested him. He had found people of his own acquaintance tiresomely
alike; he congratulated himself on having met somebody who seemed likely
to prove different.
"So you rejoice in your half-holiday, Miss Gray," Richard observed when
he had the chance. "I suppose you know exactly what you are going to do
with it?"
"Why do you think I do?" she asked with an odd little twist of the lip.
"Do you always plan even unexpected holidays so carefully?"
It occurred to Richard that up to the last fortnight his days since he
left college had been all holidays, and there had been plenty of them
throughout college life itself.
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