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Doris came to his assistance. "Meredith's little girl was all that made the first bitter year possible for me. I have done my best, George, my happiest best she is lovely; the most joyous thing you can imagine. Remembering how much Meredith and I needed each other, I adopted a child at the same time I undertook the care of your baby the two are inseparable and wonderfully congenial."
From the platform came the shriek of the guard's whistle. The train was departing. Doris heard it go with a sick sense of despair. She knew that her liberty went with it. As the last carriage passed she spoke again. "I will go back with you now." "If I will take you back," said Jeff. Her hands clenched upon his coat. An awful weakness had begun to assail her. She fought against it desperately.
Elinor looked at her very calmly, and said with a tinge of amusement in her level voice, "You must be very thankful that you got your study in first, for then you would have had to congratulate me instead of commiserating me." Patricia felt rather ashamed of Elinor's lack of response to what she considered Doris' loyal support, and she broke out gratefully, "You'll tell them all, won't you?
"I didn't say that," and we quarrelled a little until we reached the carriage. Doris was angry, and when she spoke again it was to say: "If you are not satisfied, you can go back. I'm sorry. I think it's most unreasonable that you should ask me to compromise myself." "And I think it's unkind of you to suggest that I should go back, for how can I go back?"
He stood still by the door of the little house which was still open, and listened to the conversation between Doris and her husband. "A fine tall man," said Euphorion, "he is a little like the Emperor." "Not a bit," replied Doris.
This high-spirited young cousin of her husband's was often a sore anxiety to her. She had had sole charge of the girl for the past three years and had found it no light responsibility. "Cheer up, darling!" besought Doris. "There is not the smallest cause for a wrinkled brow. Perhaps the experiment will turn out a success this time. Who knows? And even if it doesn't, no one will be any the worse.
He could not recall precisely what he wrote, but he had tried to make clear to her what troubled him and why. And her reply was brief, uncommonly brief for Doris, who had the faculty of expressing herself fully and freely. Hollister laid the letter on the table.
"Do you know that you have a wonderful sense of direction, Doris?" Hollister said. "You pointed to the highest part of that ridge as straight as if you could see it." "I do see it," she smiled, "I mean I know where I am, and I have in my mind a very clear picture of my surroundings always, so long as I am on familiar ground." Hollister knew this to be so, in a certain measure, on a small scale.
The observation seemed general, but as Marjorie Wilkinson and Lily Andrews entered the room a few minutes later, when the roll was being called, the girls remembered the remark, and the shaft went home. "I certainly want to congratulate the reception committee," said Doris at the beginning of the meeting, "and particularly Marjorie Wilkinson as chairman.
Dudley was sitting in his big chair by the fire, holding neither book nor paper, gazing silently at the flames. At the table she stood still. "What's the matter, Dudley?... What has happened?" There were a few moments' silence, then, scarcely looking round, he replied: "She's gone. Run away with another man." "Gone!..." she echoed. "Gone... with another man! ... Do you mean Doris?" "Yes.
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