HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1939-7-12, Page 2THE ORUSSEIS POST
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The Doings of Diana
By Pat Moore
In the end it. was Ian. Marlow who
ems to tine rescue.
"I think we are going to have
some rain," he remarked looking
intently out of the window, and ut-
terly regardless of the fact that the
sun was shining from a particularly
blue and cloudless sky,
"Do you really," Mrs. Nairn jump-
ed
umped to her feet in: sudden trepidation, I
"'Trifid so," 'Ian put up one hand
and stroked his small moustache, as
he proceeded to confirm his patent-
ly
inaccurate observation.
Forunately 'Mrs. Nairn's long so-
journ in the East had made her
mistrust the English Climate to
such am extent that she believed
him, in spite of the, cloudlessness
Ail the sky.
most frightfully sorry,
Diana," site cried, 'but if it really
Is going to rain I think I'd better
push Straight on to Herne Bay. I
do so hate driving in the rain, the
the roads get srlipalery, and that
makes me nervous, You will under-
stand, dear, and not think me
rude-"
"Oh, of course, I quite under
stand," said Diana fervently.
"Good -!aye, Captain Marlow," Mrs.
Nairn 'held out her hand whidli he
shook with a grave little bow,
'goodbye, Dianna dear child, she
bestowed a quick Little Ides on
Diana's cheek, "I tarot write and
tell your parents how very much
stronger you are looking. It makes
me feel quite miserable though t•
think of you living in this pokey
little cottage, and helping to make
sweets. How I wish that I'd got a
little home somewhere here in Eng-
land, so that I could have yuo there,
and look after you."
She fluttered vaguely oft out of
the rooms Diana accompanied• ber
as far as the gate, and waved her off
Then with slow, unwilling footsteps,
she returned to the sitting -room
which had been the scene o her
humiliation.
When she got there, she found to
her relief that Ian: was not alone,
but had been joined by Nanny
Saunde:;•s who had conte in with the
tea, and was very surprised to find
the visitor gone,
"I thought you said, miss, she Pro-
tected, "that she'd be here to tea,"
"So I did, Nanny," Diana agreed,
but Captain, Marlow told her that he
thought it was going to rain, so she
took fright and departed."
"Rain," soffed Nanny, "there's no
chance of rain to -day."
"Well, as a matter of fact," admit-
ted Ian, "there was an awkward
Pause in the conversation, and I
said the first thing that cane tato
my head."
'Poor lady," said' Nanny compas-
sionately, "what a dhame to send
her away without any plea"
That meal seemed to Diana to be
strange and unreal, They were all
three of then very silent, and she
missed the, cheery flow of conversa-
tion which usually went on when
Ian was there to tea.
Where the meal ah last came to an
end, Ian turned to Nanny Saunders
and enquired abruptly, "How are
these sweet pea seedling of yours
doing?"
Nanny's eyes shorn at the clues•
tions She was very fond of her
little• garden, and had all a keen
gardener's love of talking about her
plants.
"They're doing grandly, sir," she
replied, "if it isn't giving you too
much trouble, would you walk
down and have a lookat them.;
Thew you could tell me if you;
thought I ought to be putting the?
sticks in yet,"
"Certainly I'll look at them,' re-
plied Ian, pushing back his chair,
"are you coming to inspect the
sweet peas, Diana?"
It was on .the trip of Diana's
tongue to reduce the inn'itation, for
she fit that she did, not want to
be left alone with him again till the
embarrassment tansed by Mrs.
Nairn's tactless remarries het worn
off , but there was •something so
pdending in. his' voice, that she got
up and wa.iked out into the little
garden,
"Diana," he put his arse around
her and drew her suddenly into the
shelter of a minute summer+house
which stood about half -way down
the garden path, "will you premise
me something?"
Diana shook her head cautiously.
"That all depends on what it is,"
she told him,
"You will think Ive got an awful
cheek to ask you at all,' he said
miserably, ',and I'm afraid I'm not
going to do it very well, because
yott see it is an entirely new job to
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A harvest of 324 million bushels of wheat, to say nothing of the
increased volume of coarse grains, and all of it brought in and
threshed in 1938 without the assistance of the erstwhile army of
tens of thousands of harvest help from the East in the years not so
long gone by.
Thus does the mode of our lives and the methods of our callings
change, keeping pace with the progress being made in the scientific
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me. I anean I have never asked
ana'on•e this particular question be-
fore, Diana," he swallowed nerv-
ously and ran two fingers round the
inside of hie collar, as though it
had ssidderuly grown too tight for
him, "will you Larry mel"
Diana did not reply, and after a
moment, he went on, speaking in
tones of greatest urgency—
ens '"You won't turn me downy will
you, Diana, betarse I simply can't
bear to live without; you. ;Please
say yest "
(Still Dianla Waited a moment he-
ctor replying, but she d1d not repel
the arm which was holding her
round her waist.
At lash she said a trifle brearhhless-
ly—
"liany before I tell you whether
ar not I will harry you, I want you
to answer one question absolutely
truthfully."
'I'1d try," he promined readuty
enough,
"Welly ft's this," said Diana slow.
ly, "dlid you hear what MIS, Nairn
said to me when we came up the
garden; path this afternoon?"
•Oahe more Ian passed his finger
with a nervous. gesture round the 1n -
side of his collar,
"Wail, as a natter of fact," he ad=
cl'tted wi.tr a sort of gulp, "I inti
No one could help hearing Mrs,
Nairn; if they were within ten miles
of her, she' got such a piercing
voice,"
'I was afraid you .must have done,'
She to1.d him sadly,
"Or, well," he Said careleseLy,
don't let's botlher about Mrs, Nairn
riny more; Won't you give me an
answer to my question, Diana,"
"Not till you thttve answered one
Mors of mtne,"'she said, "Youlre< not
asking rile to merry you, because
of what Wats, Nairn said;, aro you,
Ian, tl mean you don't feel that I
should be disappointed it yoi{
didlnbt:
"Good gracious, mo," he cried
and his voice rang width such sin
cerity, that she had no fhoice to be-
lieve 'him,' and What is more I can
Trove it, You know I told you 1
was going up to Town to -day?
"Yes,' she nodded, "I was ear -
Prised to see you back so soon."
"I was rather surprised to see
myself," he told her with a little
laugh. "I thought it would probably
take me the whole day to choose
what I wanted but in are end I
stamick lucky at the very first shop
I went into."
He slipped his free hand tato his
pocket and ,brawlint ort a little
velvet case. WLtla he pressed the
catch fro lid flew back Diana had a
glimpse of sayphlres and diamonds
resting on, a lining of white satin,
"There you are," he cried tri-
umphantly, "that will prove tibatt I
had already made up my mind to
ask you to matey me and; was not in
the least in'fluelnced by 'Maturer
Nairn's tagtQul remarks."
"Wlhait a lovely ring," said Diana
in a low voice.
'.1May I put it on?" he enquired
,shyly. .'•l ; i� �
"Yes," she, breathed.
"And now," he said half an hour
or so later„ "I have got a confession
to make, Do you remember my
telling your that last afternoon on
board the Trireme that when I
dived into the. water during the
shipwreck, thsit I hadn't any idea,
who it was I was going to rescue?"
"Mm," Diana nodded. "1 felt $6
snubbed."
"poor darling, what a shame,"
his
arra tightened round her, "well,
it was all a 110. When I dived into
tato water, I bad only one idea 1n
rey head, and; that was to rescue
you, because I thinks I fell in love
with yen the very first moment I
saw yen," ,
"It took me a little longer than
drat,"
For a moment she snuggled PP
against him, too uttetdy content for
words. Tiben to both of them
came the sound of a car stoppinib
at 'bhe front gate of tile little cot-
tage,
''Bother,' 'remarlted Diana from
the shelter of his ernes, "I hope trait
is no one to see rhe."
"Even if it is, s'ur'ely Nanny will
have the humanity to say (sgrj wit
at ,home."
But Nanny diisturbed them herself
She came out of the cottage, with a
little secret• senile on hex lips.
"There's a lady and gentleman to
sec you," she amnouaiced, "they_
wouldhft give any name."
'KW8m can they be?" said Diana
and strolled unwillingly into the
house.
The next minute she wine is ber
mother's arms.
"Mum' and Daddy," she shrieked.
"how did you get here:'
"Well,' 'explained rer father,
found most unlxpegteddlz, thtt 1
could get short leave, and. as we
were rather worried about you, we
deoi.deidl to pay you a flying visit"
'illow long wadi' you be , able ¢o
stay?" demanded, Diana breatuulessi.
ly,
"dvstt about six lreekp."
"Good," put in Ian, wbb had enter-
ed the room atter his fiancee; and
was standing proper up against the
mantelpiece, "then' you will be able
to dance at our wedding,"
THE END.
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