“Such a very extraordinary thing has just happened, and I must write and tell you at once, as I am dying to know what you will think about it. I can’t understand it at all. It’s about Mr. Mapleton – that is partly – do you remember that I said that I thought he was in love with me because he avoided me so? Well now I don’t think that can be it…
… I was surprised by hearing someone talking…and
then I suddenly recognised that it was Mr. Mapleton’s voice that was talking,
but not at all his usual voice, and it was all quite dark… I only half heard it
really, because it was so mubbling and indistinct and it seemed so funny and
extraordinary. I’m sure he was making love. He kept on saying ‘I love you more
than anyone in the world’ and things like that, and ‘Do you – love me as much
as I( love you?’ a great mant times, and ‘You’re the most beautiful creature in
the world, how can you be so beautiful?’ and ‘My dearest dearest angel’, and
things like that…Of course I couldn’t imagine who he was talking to,…- and then
I was just wondering whether perhaps it was Carrie, when somebody else said ‘Darling
– darling’ – just like that, and my dear, it was Godfrey [her younger brother]
That gave me such a jump that I very nearly dropped all my books - … but I luckily
didn’t… I made out that Godfrey’s voice
must have come from behind a screen…so I stretched out as far as I could, and
just managed to see round the screen to the sofa. And Mr. Mapleton was there
too, with his arm round Godfrey’s neck and they were kissing and their hair was
all tousled, but the most extraordinary thing of all was thar their
buttons were so much undone that their
shirts were coming out. Wasn’t it too peculiar for words?”
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