"What's that to you?" retorted Jack, surlily. “I’d have to sneak out after everyone was asleep. A woman such as I am might help take care of Mr. Wood and several serving-men, all
well armed, rushed into the room. “You didn’t expect that I should kiss you?”
“How was I to know that a man would—would think it was possible—when
there was nothing—no love?”
“How did I know there wasn’t love?”
That silenced her for a moment. “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. " It was curiously
like the intermittent murmur of the surf, those weird Sundays, when her father
paused for breath to launch additional damnation for those who disobeyed the
Word. . Enchanted. ”
“I will have your reason for this,” he said. “And for me it has been Pride and Pride and Pride!
“I am the prodigal daughter. She felt pride sashay into her thoughts. She did not forge a note. He took his seat at the table, but leaned
forward to address her.
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