“And you brought her a man, I presume. "
"Hum!" exclaimed Jonathan. ‘I don’t
want to hurt you any more. For some days we shall be very idle there among
the trees and rocks. She turned a resolute face southward. ”
Part 7
It was rather less than a week after that walk that Capes came and sat down
beside Ann Veronica for their customary talk in the lunch hour. “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. And you will. ’
Kimble chewed his lip, but his hostility was visibly lessening. "
When the doctor entered the bedroom and looked into the faces of the culprits,
he laughed brokenly.
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