Peckover. Her grand. father's proposal was, that
she should continue thus for another six months, after which, he
said, it would be time for her to learn a business. Mrs. Byass had
suggested the choice of artificial-flower making, to which she
herself had been brought up; possibly that would do as well as
anything else.
'I suppose so,' was Sidney's reluctant acquiescence. 'Or as ill as
anything else, would be a better way to put it.'
Snowdon regarded him with unusual fixedness, and seemed on the point
of making some significant remark; but immediately his face
expressed change of purpose, and he said, without emphasis:
'Jane must be able to earn her own living.'
Sidney, before going home, walked round to the street in which he
had already lingered several times to-day, and where yesterday he
had spoken with Clara. The windows of the house he gazed at were
dark.
CHAPTER XII
'IO SATURNALIA!'
So at length came Monday, the first Monday in August, a day gravely
set apart for the repose and recreation of multitudes who neither
know how to rest nor how to refresh themselves with pastime. To-day
will the slaves of industrialism don the _pileus_.
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