That was all."
"Then finish that boot!"
Selina had to expose the hand, Margaret looked down at it
indifferently, though her heel had torn the skin away from the
edge of the palm and had cut into the flesh.
"Hurry!" she ordered fiercely, as Selina fumbled and bungled.
She twitched and frowned with impatience while Selina finished
buttoning the boot, then descended and called Williams. "Get me
Mr. Craig on the telephone," she said.
"He's been calling you up several times to-day, ma'am,--"
"Ah!" exclaimed Margaret, eyes flashing with sudden delight.
"But we wouldn't disturb you."
"That was right," said Margaret. She was beaming now, was all
sunny good humor. Even her black hair seemed to glisten in her
simile. So! He had been calling up! Poor fool, not to realize that
she would draw the correct inference from this anxiety.
"Shall I call him?" "No. I'll wait. Probably he'll call again
soon. I'll be in the library."
She had not been roaming restlessly about there many minutes
before Williams appeared "He's come, himself, ma'am," said he. "I
told him I didn't know whether you'd be able to see him or not."
"Thank you, Williams," said Margaret sweetly.
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