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"How will she tell her?" asked Edna, feeling that this was an ordeal that she would not like to go through. "Why, it will be very easy to say, 'Aunt Elizabeth, here are some preserves mother thought would be nice for supper to-night. Don't you think that would be easy to say?" "Ye-es," returned Edna a little doubtful if this would have the proper effect.
"Indeed I'd rather have it than the most gorgeous gown in Boston," she replied breathlessly, her spirits rising as she felt the strength of his arms. "Naught shall part me from it. Tell me what to do and I'll do it." Edna swam around them with nonchalant, sidelong strokes, while Dunham went through the customary directions to the novice.
She closed the volume and held it toward him, but he waved it back. "Keep it if it interests you. I have read it once, and merely wished to refer to a particular passage. Can you guess what sentence most frequently recurs to me? If so, read it to me." He drew a chair close to the hearth and lighted his cigar. Hesitatingly Edna turned the leaves.
All the company stared in equal amazement and apprehension, as Edna suddenly bowed her head on the lawyer's little broadcloth shoulder, and shook him with her sobs. "Edna!" exclaimed Dunham, stepping forward, and he was unconscious of the severity of his voice. "Do you know you're frightening us? Where is Sylvia?" "G-gone!" "Where, for mercy's sake?" demanded Miss Martha tremulously.
She seemed to ignore Richard; beyond a cold good morning she did not vouchsafe him a word or a look; and as all his overtures toward reconciliation were passed over in chilling silence, he soon left her to herself. They all went to church together, and as they walked through the lanes Edna seemed to recover her buoyancy.
"Edna Earl, I give you one last chance to be truthful with me. If you yielded to the temptation and what woman, what girl, would not? it would be no more than I really expected, and you will scarcely have disappointed me; for, as I told you, I put no faith in you. But even if you succumbed to a natural curiosity, be honest and confess it!"
Norah was in the depths of despondency; but her repinings were all for her beloved companion, and not for any disappointment of her own. Now that she had the interest of her music lessons, and the friendship of Rex and Edna, she was unwilling to leave home even for the delights of London and the College of Music. Poor Hilary, however, was in a far worse case.
Edna, however, had received frequent remittances while the captain was at the Rackbirds' cove, through an agent in San Francisco. These, she supposed, came from further sales of gold, but, in fact, they had come from the sale of investments which the captain had made in the course of his fairly successful maritime career.
He was driving tandem, and his horses were very fresh. Edna was with him, her small wan face rather set in its halo of ashen blonde hair and pale against the rich brown of her sables. When they came by the second time Mamie called to her cousin. The Prince drew rein, and the groom sprang down and ran to the leader's head. "My, Edna, how cold you look!
Once he turned toward shore and waved his hat, and then he sailed away toward the western sky. Mrs. Cliff and Ralph walked together toward the caves, leaving Edna alone upon the beach. "Well," said Ralph, "this is the first wedding I ever saw, but I must say it is rather different from my idea of that sort of thing.
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