Capitolo 58
so deep in the pillow. Neither it told a word the other of that that
she thought or it felt. But their same mute understanding did them
more shame-faced that never. In some weak, indefinite, instinctive
you shape, Elma knew that his/her mother was vaguely what she had done
last night. Its fixed look unconsciously fell mean on the lowest drawer.
With rapid acumen, the eye of Mrs. Clifford followed his/her daughter.
It fell as before then. Elma looked above at her terrified, and burst
in a sudden flood of torn wounds. His/her mother bent down him and the takings
wildly in his/her arm. "Cries, cries, my darling", ahes murmured, while hooking
his/her hard to his/her breast. "Cries, to whine; It will do her good; there is safety
in to cry. Anybody but I will come near You to-day. Anybody other
will know! Don't be afraid of me! Have not I/you/they been there, also? It is
nothing, nothing."
With a burst of the desperation, Elma placed his/her face in the breast of his/her mother.
Some minutes later, her Mrs. Clifford went down to meet his/her husband in
the breakfast-room.
"Well?" his/her father asked, shortly, seeming hard to the face of his/her wife,
what suffered it said his/her his/her own history, for him it was white and pale.
"Well!" Mrs. Clifford responded, with a pre-busy air. "Elma
not her this morning at all. It had a nervous turn after she went
to his/her room last night. I know what is. I suffered them
me when I was on his/her age." Its eyes quickly fell and her
he tightened by his/her husband is crossing look. You were an it plump-faced
and well-favoured British matron now, but once, many years before,
as a young thin girl, she had been in love of someone--someone
who from parental and superior wisdom the it was not never permitted to marry himself/herself/themselves,
being postponed instead with a match of good relative, young Mr. Clifford
of the Colonial Office. That was everything. Anybody more romantic than that.
The novel common of every woman's heart. A forgotten love. Still
she swarmed to remember him/it.