“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. We’ll have Trodger check it out later. You'll find those young ladies extremely agreeable acquaintances. Pennsylvania Dutch. She could feel Martin’s eyes boring into her as she
entered the room, her own personal Farhat. “They have just
taken this house from Lady Cellender. Lad, I admire you even in your folly. Anyhow, he did not sentimentalize her. All these circumstances,—slight in
themselves, but powerful in their effect,—touched the heart of the widowed
carpenter, and added to his depression. ’”
“What did he say?”
“What does any one say to an invitation to dinner point-blank? One tries to
collect one’s wits. You have the look
in your eyes to-night which you had that day, the look of a frightened child. I want to be very plain with you. It
seemed an emblem of the ruin he had caused. At least I rather hoped I
might spend my time chasing smugglers, which would have afforded some
excitement. What was to hinder me, if I had been so
inclined, from directing them to your retreat?"
"Enough," replied Darrell.
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