Galbraith was devoting her
time to her mother who was still indisposed. Hence Cynthia was forced
to fill the gaps and serve both as host and hostess. It was a natural
situation, and Bob thought nothing about it except selfishly to exult
that under the conditions Cynthia was kept too busy to invade the
Spence home or bother him with invitations. And that was not the only
boon that came with Snelling's presence, for with three workers in the
shop Robert Morton found not infrequent chances to steal into the
kitchen, where Delight was busy with household tasks, and enjoy the
rapture of a word or two with her.
Never were there such days of enchantment as these! He might, he often
said to himself, have remained in Wilton an entire summer and his
acquaintance with the lady of his heart never have reached the degree
of intimacy that it attained during Celestina's illness. To behold the
girl, fair as the new-blown rose, presiding at the wee breakfast table
was to forget all else. How dainty she looked in her trim cotton gown,
with its demure cuffs and collar of white, and how deftly her hands
moved among the simple fittings of the table! The worn agate
coffee-pot seemed transformed to classic outline, and the nectar it
contained to ambrosia.
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