"There it is--you already begin to answer for what I think. When Mr.
Wright comes back you will be able to tell him that I am 'outrageous'!"
And she turned away and walked on, slowly following her companions.
"What do you care what I tell him?" Bernard asked. "You don't care a
straw."
She said nothing for a moment, then, suddenly, she stopped again,
dropping her eyes.
"I beg your pardon," she said, very gently; "I care a great deal. It 's
as well that you should know that."
Bernard stood looking at her; her eyes were still lowered.
"Do you know what I shall tell him? I shall tell him that about eleven
o'clock at night you become peculiarly attractive."
She went on again a few steps; Miss Evers and Captain Lovelock had
turned round and were coming toward her.
"It is very true that I am outrageous," she said; "it was extremely
silly and in very bad taste to come out at this hour. Mamma was not at
all pleased, and I was very unkind to her. I only wanted to take a turn,
and now we will go back." On the others coming up she announced this
resolution, and though Captain Lovelock and his companion made a
great outcry, she carried her point. Bernard offered no opposition. He
contented himself with walking back to her mother's lodging with her
almost in silence.
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