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The
eyes
did
n't
liven
,
but
a
faint
pink
stole
into
her
cheeks
.
"
Yes
,
Paddy
,
do
that
.
Only
make
sure
he
knows
not
to
tell
Frank
we
found
out
.
Perhaps
it
would
ease
Frank
to
think
for
certain
that
we
do
n't
know
.
"
Within
a
few
days
Fee
regained
most
of
her
energy
,
and
her
interest
in
redecorating
the
big
house
kept
her
occupied
.
But
her
quietness
became
dour
again
,
only
less
grim
,
encapsulated
by
an
expressionless
calm
.
It
seemed
she
cared
more
for
how
the
big
house
would
eventually
look
than
she
did
for
her
family
's
welfare
.
Perhaps
she
assumed
they
could
look
after
themselves
spiritually
,
and
that
Mrs.
Smith
and
the
maids
were
there
to
look
after
them
physically
.
Yet
the
discovery
of
Frank
's
plight
had
profoundly
affected
everyone
.
The
older
boys
grieved
deeply
for
their
mother
,
spent
sleepless
nights
remembering
her
face
at
that
awful
moment
.
They
loved
her
,
and
her
cheerfulness
during
the
previous
few
weeks
had
given
them
a
glimpse
of
her
which
was
never
to
leave
them
,
and
was
to
inspire
them
with
a
passionate
desire
to
bring
it
back
again
.
If
their
father
had
been
the
pivot
upon
which
their
lives
turned
until
then
,
from
that
moment
on
their
mother
was
put
alongside
him
.
They
began
to
treat
her
with
a
tender
,
absorbed
care
no
amount
of
indifference
on
her
part
could
banish
.
From
Paddy
to
Stu
the
Cleary
males
conspired
to
make
Fee
's
life
whatever
she
wanted
,
and
they
demanded
adherence
to
this
end
from
everyone
.
No
one
must
ever
harm
her
or
hurt
her
again
.
And
when
Paddy
presented
her
with
the
pearls
she
took
them
with
a
brief
,
expressionless
word
of
thanks
,
no
pleasure
or
interest
in
her
perusal
;
but
everyone
was
thinking
how
different
her
reaction
would
have
been
were
it
not
for
Frank
.
Had
the
move
to
the
big
house
not
occurred
,
poor
Meggie
would
have
suffered
a
great
deal
more
than
she
did
,
for
without
admitting
her
into
full
,
exclusively
male
membership
of
the
protect-Mum
society
(
perhaps
sensing
that
her
participation
was
more
grudging
than
theirs
)
,
her
father
and
older
brothers
expected
that
Meggie
should
shoulder
all
the
tasks
Fee
obviously
found
repugnant
.
As
it
turned
out
,
Mrs.
Smith
and
the
maids
shared
the
burden
with
Meggie
.
Chiefly
repugnant
to
Fee
was
the
care
of
her
two
youngest
sons
,
but
Mrs.
Smith
assumed
full
charge
of
Jims
and
Patsy
with
such
ardor
Meggie
could
n't
feel
sorry
for
her
,
instead
in
a
way
she
felt
glad
that
these
two
could
at
last
belong
entirely
to
the
housekeeper
.
Meggie
grieved
for
her
mother
,
too
,
but
by
no
means
as
wholeheartedly
as
the
men
,
for
her
loyalties
were
sorely
tried
;
the
big
vein
of
motherliness
in
her
was
deeply
offended
by
Fee
's
mounting
indifference
to
Jims
and
Patsy
.
When
I
have
my
children
,
she
would
think
to
herself
,
I
'm
never
going
to
love
one
of
them
more
than
the
rest
.
Living
in
the
big
house
was
certainly
very
different
.
At
first
it
was
strange
to
have
a
bedroom
to
oneself
,
and
for
the
women
,
not
to
have
to
worry
about
any
sort
of
household
duty
,
inside
or
outside
.
Minnie
,
Cat
and
Mrs.
Smith
among
them
coped
with
everything
from
washing
and
ironing
to
cooking
and
cleaning
,
and
were
horrified
by
offers
of
help
.
In
return
for
plenty
of
food
and
a
small
wage
,
an
endless
procession
of
swaggies
were
temporarily
entered
on
the
station
books
as
rouseabouts
,
to
chop
the
wood
for
the
homestead
fires
,
feed
the
fowls
and
pigs
,
do
the
milking
,
help
old
Tom
take
care
of
the
lovely
gardens
,
do
all
the
heavy
cleaning
.
Paddy
had
been
communicating
with
Father
Ralph
.
"
The
income
from
Mary
's
estate
comes
to
roughly
four
million
pounds
a
year
,
thanks
to
the
fact
that
Michar
Limited
is
a
privately
owned
company
with
most
of
its
assets
sunk
in
steel
,
ships
and
mining
,
"
wrote
Father
Ralph
.
"
So
what
I
've
assigned
to
you
is
a
mere
drop
in
the
Carson
bucket
,
and
does
n't
even
amount
to
one-tenth
of
Drogheda
station
profits
in
a
year
.
Do
n't
worry
about
bad
years
,
either
.
The
Drogheda
station
account
is
so
heavily
in
the
black
I
can
pay
you
out
of
its
interest
forever
,
if
necessary
.
So
what
money
comes
to
you
is
no
more
than
you
deserve
,
and
does
n't
dent
Michar
Limited
.
It
's
station
money
you
're
getting
,
not
company
money
.
I
require
no
more
of
you
than
to
keep
the
station
books
up
to
date
and
honestly
entered
for
the
auditors
.
"
