It must have been long after one when I went to bed, yet I was thankful
when dawn came, and gave me an excuse to get up. After I had had a cold
bath, however, I felt better, and a cup of steaming hot coffee
afterwards did me good. I was all dressed when Morton, Aunt Lilian's
maid, knocked at my door to ask if I were up, and if she could help me
do my hair. "Her Ladyship" sent me her love, and hoped I had rested
nicely. She would be pleased to hear that I was looking well.
Looking well! I was glad to know that, though it surprised me. I stared
at myself in the glass, and wondered that so many hours of misery had
made so little impression on my face. I was rather paler than usual,
perhaps, but my cheeks were faintly pink, and my lips red. I suppose
while one is young one can suffer a good deal and one's face tell no
secret.
We were to make a very early start to examine the wonderful motor-car
which Lord Robert West had advised Aunt Lil to buy. Afterwards she and
Lisa and I had planned to do a little shopping, because it would seem a
waste of time to be in Paris and bring nothing away from the shops. But
when I tapped at Lisa's door (dreading, yet wishing, to have our first
greeting over), it appeared that she had a bad headache and did not want
to go with us to see the Rajah's automobile.
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