”
“Why do you think so?” she asked. "
"Lord, that's just the lesson I've been expounding! It isn't a question of fear; it's
one of propriety. I hope this is all. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. '"
As these words were delivered by the carpenter with stern emphasis, a female
servant entered the room, and stated that a gentleman was at the door, who
wished to speak with Captain Darell on business of urgent importance. She intercepted the glance the spinsters exchanged, and immediately sensed that
she had said too much. ”
Her first upward glance was one of terrified apprehension. I undid his coat, and I
took it from his pocket. A beachcomber in embryo, and she had lent a hand through habit as much
as through pity.
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