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The Enchanted April, Part 11 of 15

The Sleepy Bookshelf

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Lady Caroline's Loneliness

Mr. Wilkins had established the daily assisting of Lady Caroline into her chair as his special privilege, whether there was anything the matter with Mrs. Fisher. Scrap noticed it, and vaguely wondered at it, for some time before Mr. Wilkins inquired of her one morning as he arranged her cushions for her. She allowed him to arrange the cushions because she had instantly discovered the very first five minutes of the very first evening that her fears lest he should cling to her and stare in dreadful admiration were baseless. He did not admire like that. It was not only she instinctively felt not in him, but if it had been, he would not have dared to in her case. His

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