Beats the fragrant roses,
She's admired by all aroun'.
They call her Bloomin' Caroline,
Of Edinboro Town."
She played an interlude carelessly.
"Young Henry, being a Highland lad,
A-courting her he came,
And when her parents heard of it
They did not like the same.
so
She bundled up her costly robes,
The stairs came tripping down,
And away went Bloomin' Caroline
From Edinboro Town."
Dermott had risen and stood by the far window, looking into the night. Unseen by him, she touched Frank on the sleeve.
"Do not do anything he asks you to do to-night," she whispered, with great intensity, and in a minute more was back at the singing.
"They had not been in London
For scarcely half a year—"
and before the song ended the two men were joining the refrain, taken out of themselves by her beauty and charm.
For nearly a week after this she saw neither of them again, but her honest soul was fretted