She has a pree-ty
voice--nothing beeg, but quite pree-ty."
Diana set forth on her visit to Adrienne with a certain amount of
trepidation. Much as she longed to see Max Errington again, she felt
that the first meeting after that last episode of their acquaintance
might well partake of the somewhat doubtful pleasure of skating on thin
ice.
It was therefore not without a feeling of relief that she found the
actress and her chaperon the only occupants of the former's pretty
drawing-room. They both welcomed her cordially.
"I have heard so much about you," said Mrs. Adams, pleasantly, "that
I've been longing to meet you, Miss Quentin. Adrienne calls you the
'girl with the golden voice,' and I'm hoping to have the pleasure of
hearing you sing."
Diana was getting used to having her voice referred to as something
rather wonderful; it no longer embarrassed her, so she murmured an
appropriate answer and the conversation then drifted naturally to
Crailing and to the lucky chance which had brought Errington past
Culver Point the day Diana was marooned there, and Diana explained that
the Rector and his daughter had intended calling upon the occupants of
Red Gables, but had been prevented by their sudden departure.
Adrienne laughed.
"Yes, I expect every one thought we were quite mad to run away like
that so soon after our arrival! It was a sudden idea of Mr.
Errington's.
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