Miss Billy's Decision by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
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inquiringly at Rosa, who had appeared at that
moment in the hall doorway. ``It's the telephone, Miss Neilson. Mr. Bertram Henshaw wants you.'' A few minutes later Aunt Hannah heard Billy at the piano. For fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes the brilliant scales and arpeggios rippled through the rooms and up the stairs to Aunt Hannah, who knew, by the very sound of them, that some unusual nervousness was being worked off at the finger tips that played them. At the end of forty- five minutes Aunt Hannah went down-stairs. ``Billy, my dear, excuse me, but have you forgotten what time it is? Weren't you going out with Bertram?'' Billy stopped playing at once, but she did not turn her head. Her fingers busied themselves with some music on the piano. ``We aren't going, Aunt Hannah,'' she said. ``Bertram can't.'' ``_Can't!_'' ``Well, he didn't want to--so of course I |
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