To those two in the old orchard it mattered not a whit . Kilmeny knew nothing of gossip . To her , Lindsay was as much of an unknown world as the city of Eric 's home . Her thoughts strayed far and wide in the realm of her fancy , but they never wandered out to the little realities that hedged her strange life around . In that life she had blossomed out , a fair , unique thing . There were times when Eric almost regretted that one day he must take her out of her white solitude to a world that , in the last analysis , was only Lindsay on a larger scale , with just the same pettiness of thought and feeling and opinion at the bottom of it . He wished he might keep her to himself for ever , in that old , spruce-hidden orchard where the roses fell . One day he indulged himself in the fulfillment of the whim he had formed when Kilmeny had told him she thought herself ugly . He went to Janet and asked her permission to bring a mirror to the house that he might have the privilege of being the first to reveal Kilmeny to herself exteriorly . Janet was somewhat dubious at first . `` There has n't been such a thing in the house for sixteen years , Master . There never was but three -- one in the spare room , and a little one in the kitchen , and Margaret 's own . She broke them all the day it first struck her that Kilmeny was going to be bonny . I might have got one after she died maybe . But I did n't think of it ; and there 's no need of lasses to be always prinking at their looking glasses . '' But Eric pleaded and argued skilfully , and finally Janet said , `` Well , well , have your own way . You 'd have it anyway I think , lad . You are one of those men who always get their own way . But that is different from the men who TAKE their own way -- and that 's a mercy , '' she added under her breath . Eric went to town the next Saturday and picked out a mirror that pleased him .
He had it shipped to Radnor and Thomas Gordon brought it home , not knowing what it was , XXXXX Janet had thought it just as well he should not know .
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