‘I
wonder why the females of my acquaintance have absolutely no respect
whatsoever for male authority?’
‘Ha!’ came from Hilary. For Ruth grew lovelier as the days went on. “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. No matter. . Your life is like a funeral March. But a biddable girl. Probably she was married years ago and is now
merely on the way to her husband's house. She did not want to seem to shrink from conversation,
but all sorts of odd questions were running through her mind.
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