Saturday afternoon Worth got ready to keep Millicent 's engagement . `` Suppose I am found out and expelled from Beechwood in disgrace , '' she suggested laughingly , as she arranged her lace bertha before the glass . `` Nonsense , '' said Millicent , pointing to their reflected faces . `` The Kirbys can never suspect . Why , if it were n't for the hair and the dresses , I 'd hardly know myself which of those reflections belonged to which . '' `` What if they begin asking me about the welfare of the various members of your family ? '' `` They wo n't ask any but the most superficial questions . We 're not intimate enough for anything else . I 've coached you pretty thoroughly , and I think you 'll get on all right . '' Worth 's courage carried her successfully through the ordeal of arriving at Beechwood and meeting Mrs. Kirby . She was unsuspectingly accepted as Millicent Moore , and found her impersonation of that young lady not at all difficult . No dangerous subject of conversation was introduced and nothing personal was said until Mr. Kirby came in . He looked so scrutinizingly at Worth as he shook hands with her that the latter felt her heart beating very fast . Did he suspect ? `` Upon my word , Miss Moore , '' he said genially , `` you gave me quite a start at first . You are very like what a half-sister of mine used to be when a girl long ago . Of course the resemblance must be quite accidental . '' `` Of course , '' said Worth , without any very clear sense of what she was saying . Her face was uncomfortably flushed and she was glad when tea was announced . As nothing more of an embarrassing nature was said , Worth soon recovered her self-possession and was able to enter into the conversation .
She liked the Kirbys ; still , under her enjoyment , she was conscious XXXXX a strange , disagreeable feeling that deepened as the evening wore on .
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