”
“Oh, Drummond’s dinner!” she repeated. "
"He'll scarcely need a plaister," replied Mrs. Where I
am in error, you can set me right. "Here we part,—perhaps
for ever. Hetty, who
had periods of lucid expression, put the thing for her from her pillow. ”
The truth prevailed. “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. Her sadness was manageable only
because she was so familiar with its phases, because she
could observe its moods remotely, like an astronomer
studying the moon. It was a shame that they had made such a fuss, she
thought as he arrived. He moved, after quiet intervals, with a quick little
movement, and ever and again stroked his small mustache and coughed a selfconscious cough. They were enormously pleased with one another; they found each other
beyond measure better than they had expected, if only because of the want of
substance in mere expectation.
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