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When this point was satisfactorily settled, much to the dissatisfaction, however, of Master Teddy, a sudden thought struck Mary. "Why, wherever can Miss Conny be all this time?" she exclaimed, on looking round and not finding her with the other children. "See's done home," said Cissy laconically. "Gone home!" repeated Mary. "Why?"
He nearly broke my arm would have done it, if I hadn't gone limp to him; and your cousin Conny Jopp, little Conny Jopp, was as near Kingdom Come as a man wants at his age. I saw an elephant go 'must' once in India, and it was as like O'Ryan as putty is to dough. It isn't all over either, for O'Ryan will forget and forgive, and Jopp won't. He's your cousin, but he's a sulker.
I wish Stanhope hadn't been such a beast! At that moment, too late to avoid her, Lady Northmoor, pale and anxious, came up the path and was upon them. 'Your uncle is asleep, she began, but then, starting, 'Oh, Conny. Poor Whitewing. Did you find him? Constance hung her head and did not speak. Then her aunt saw how it was.
"If you are very anxious, mamma," said Joanna, "as it is very early, and they set out to walk round by the garden at Houndswood to get some geraniums, which Polly saw yesterday, and set her heart upon; if you order out the ponies and Sandy, I think Conny and I could easily ride over to Hurlton, and deliver the little parcel to the girls in time.
"I wonder if it is good for them here, so far down in the city, they have only that scrap of park to play in." Conny, who had been over this question a good many times, answered irrefutably, "There seem to be a good many children growing up all right in the same conditions." She knew that Percy would like some excuse to escape into the country.
"Can I telephone any one else his father?" the man suggested, as he turned to the door. "No it would be no use it's too late to reach him." Then she turned again to the boy, who was still unconscious.... When the man had finished telephoning, he came back through the hall, where Conny was sitting. "How did it happen?" she asked.
He had that bloodless whiteness of skin so often found among young American men, which contrasted with his dark mustache, and after a long day's work like this his step dragged. He wore glasses over his blue eyes, and when he removed them the dark circles could be seen. Conny knew the limits of his strength and looked carefully to his physical exercise.
Percy, naturally, had known about this, and though he was slightly troubled by the growing intimacy with the Senator, he was also flattered and trusted his wife's judgment. "A shrewd business head," the Senator said of Conny, and the Senator ought to know. "It is as easy to do business with her as with a man."
"Grandfather!" exclaimed the child, holding up her work with an imploring look, "be those stitches too long? If you say so, grandfather, I will take them all out, because you know." "They will do very nicely indeed, Conny," replied the old man, with an approving smile; "and as for you, Master Walter, I wish that your work was always done as well as your sister's.
"Well, I'd rather for my part wait and hear about the place from our own travellers," rejoined Cissy impatiently. "I do wish they would come! I think I will go and see how Molly is getting on with the dinner. I'm sure she'll be late if somebody doesn't look after her." "You had better leave her alone, Cissy," remonstrated Conny.
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