[The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan]@TWC D-Link bookThe Pool in the Desert CHAPTER 1 10/13
She turned herself out very freshly and very well; she was always ready for everything, and I am sure that no glance of Dacres Tottenham's found aught but direct and decorous response.
His society on these occasions gave her solid pleasure; so did the drive and the lunch; the satisfactions were apparently upon the same plane.
She was aware of the plum, if I may be permitted a brusque but irresistible simile; and with her mouth open, her eyes modestly closed, and her head in a convenient position, she waited, placidly, until it should fall in. The Farnham ladies would have been delighted with the result of their labours in the sweet reason and eminent propriety of this attitude. Thinking of my idiotic sufferings when John began to fix himself upon my horizon, I pondered profoundly the power of nature in differentiation. One evening, the last, I think, but one, I had occasion to go to my daughter's room, and found her writing in her commonplace-book.
She had a commonplace-book, as well as a Where Is It? an engagement-book, an account-book, a diary, a Daily Sunshine, and others with purposes too various to remember.
'Dearest mamma,' she said, as I was departing, 'there is only one "p" in "opulence", isn't there ?' 'Yes,' I replied, with my hand on the door-handle, and added curiously, for it was an odd word in Cecily's mouth, 'Why ?' She hardly hesitated.
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