Tuyn's

"I will make it all right with the manager," said Braybrooke, with over-anxious earnestness, and feeling now quite definitely that he must really have proposed to Miss Cronin for Miss Van Tuyn's hand that afternoon, and that he must have just lied about the disposal of her time until she had to dress for dinner.

December Love Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

For the first time since she had come into the room there was a helpless sound in Miss Van Tuyn's voice, a sound that was wholly girlish, absolutely, transparently sincere.

December Love Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

The line showed itself in Miss Van Tuyn's forehead.

December Love Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Arabian examined this tragedy, which was one of Garstin's finest bits of work in Miss Van Tuyn's estimation, with careful and close attention, but without showing the faintest symptom of either pity or disgust.

December Love Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

He picked it up and saw Miss Van Tuyn's handwriting.

December Love Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

As he did so he saw in Miss Van Tuyn's eyes the thought:

December Love Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Miss Van Tuyn's keen though still girlish eyes looked sharply into

December Love Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

A line appeared in Miss Van Tuyn's low forehead, but she only said:

December Love Robert Smythe Hichens 1907