個人ニュース6
TT reared up before the window, her forepaws on the sill, big cat-head outlined against the star-hazed night sky, staring fixedly down into the garden.Telzey, only curious at that point, climbed out of bed and joined TT at the window. There was nothing in particular to be seen, and if the scents and minor night-sounds which came from the garden weren’t exactly what they were used to, Jontarou was after all an unfamiliar planet. What else would one expect here?
But Tick-Tock’s muscular back felt tense and rigid when Telzey laid her arm across it, and except for an absent-minded dig with her forehead against Telzey’s shoulder, TT refused to let her attention be distracted from whatever had absorbed it. Now and then, a low, ominous rumble came from her furry throat, a half-angry, half-questioning sound. Telzey began to feel a little uncomfortable. She managed finally to coax Tick-Tock away from the window, but neither of them slept well the rest of the night. At breakfast, Aunt Halet made one of her typical nasty-sweet remarks.
“You look so fatigued, dear—as if you were under some severe mental strain . . . which, of course, you might be,” Halet added musingly. With her gold-blond hair piled high on her head and her peaches and cream complexion, Halet looked fresh as a daisy herself . . . a malicious daisy. “Now wasn’t I right in insisting to Jessamine that you needed a vacation away from that terribly intellectual school?” She smiled gently.
“Absolutely,” Telzey agreed, restraining the impulse to fling a spoonful of egg yolk at p