Tai-yue was bent upon cracking melon seeds, saying nothing but simply pursing up her lips and smiling, when, strange coincidence, Hsueeh Yen, Tai-yues waiting-maid, walked in and handed her mistress a small hand-stove.
Who told you to bring it? ascertained Tai-yue grinningly. m sorry to have given whoever it is the trouble; Im obliged to her. But did she ever imagine that I would freeze to death?
Tzu Chuan was afraid, replied Hsueeh Yen, that you would, miss, feel cold, and she asked me to bring it over.
Tai-yue took it over and held it in her lap. How is it, she smiled, that you listen to what she tells you, but that you treat what I say, day after day, as so much wind blowing past your ears! How is it that you at once do what she bids you, with even GREater alacrity than you would an imperial edict?
When Pao-yue heard this, he felt sure in his mind that Tai-yue was availing herself of this opportunity to make fun of him, but he made no remark, merely laughing to himself and paying no further notice. Pao Chai, again, knew full well that this habit was a weak point with Tai-yue, so she too did not go out of her way to heed what she said.
Youve always been delicate and unable to stand the cold, interposed aunt Hsueeh, and is it not a kind attention on their part to have thought of you?
You dont know, aunt, how it really stands, responded Tai-yue smilingly; fortunately enough, it was sent to me here at your quarters; for had it been in any one elses house, wouldnt it have been a slight upon them? Is it forsooth nice to think that people havent so much as a hand-stove, and that one has fussily to be sent over from home? People wont say that the waiting-maids are too officious, but will imagine that Im in the habit of behaving in this offensive fashion.
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