“You are very kind to think of it,” she said, “but—don’t you think perhaps—that
I had better not?”
He smiled indulgently. “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. “Confound your lover! Look here! Do you really think I am
going to run you while he makes love to you? No fear! I never heard of anything
so cool. It was at breakfast on this day that he told Ruth he had sent to
Batavia for some dresses. He's more like a lord than—"
As she spoke, steps were heard approaching; the door was thrown open, and a
young man marched boldly into the room. ‘You are an avid reader, I take it. She always dawdled, so it was easy. Cloud
back of your hat!" He opened his eyes again. He was chained to the ground, but started up at their approach. “Suppose I chuck it,” she remarked, standing with the mauve slip in her hand
—“suppose I chuck it, and surrender and go home! Perhaps, after all, Roddy was
right!
“Father keeps opening the door and shutting it, but a time will come—
“I could still go home!”
She held Ramage’s check as if to tear it across. ”
“What’s our lot?” asked her sister. The letter began:
“MY DEAREST GIRL,—I cannot let you do this foolish thing—”
She crumpled notes and letter together in her hand, and then with a passionate
gesture flung them into the fire. But he may remain with
you if he pleases: I sha'n't hinder him. What isn’t
a day-dream is this: that you and I are going to put an end to flummery—and
go!”
“Go!” said Ann Veronica, clenching her hands. There's the grand laced coat he wore at his trial,
which I intend for my wedding-dress.
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