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"You are very bitter to me, Carrie; but you cannot quite see my side of the question. I would not have told about Elma if Elma had been in the least true to me, but she was not, not a bit. All the same, I am terribly, terribly sorry for her. I would not have got her into this scrape if I had known." "Ay, you had no thought, you see. You just blurted out everything."
"If you are going really to get one, Elma, be sure you see that it has plenty of coral in it, and choose nice, crisp lettuce. I care nothing for crab without lettuce." "All right mother; I'll manage," said Elma. The girls found themselves in the street. "So you are going to get mother crab and lettuce for supper," cried Carrie.
In five minutes' time, Cornelia was in her friend's room, holding her hands, gazing into her face, kissing her flaming cheeks. "Elma, is it? It is! I can see it in your face! Oh, you dear thing! When? How? I'm crazy to know. Tell me every single thing." Elma laughed; a delicious little laugh of conscious happiness. "Yes, yes, it is! Oh, Cornelia, isn't it wonderful? I can't believe it!
"That calm of manner which I trust you will acquire after you have had the advantages which I am giving you will soon show you how very unpleasant those little tattoos and small noises are, Elma," remarked the good lady, taking the teaspoon severely out of her niece's hand. "Yes, my dear, you are to come with me to-night; that is, of course " "What do you mean by 'of course, Aunt Charlotte?"
"I don't know what all this means," said Elma, her heart beating uncomfortably fast; "but I had better go in and see Aunt Charlotte." "Yes, my love, yes; and while you are talking to her I What do you say, Carrie you and I might go out upon that little matter of business, might we not?" "To be sure, mother; an excellent thought.
"Yes, I could not help myself; but if it was found out it would go hard with us both." "Then I am the one to interfere," said Carrie sotto voce. "I'll do my best, Elma, and trust to you to make it up to me when I have got you out of this scrape." "I wish you would do something, Carrie; but I don't suppose you can. It's awful to think of Aunt Charlotte coming now.
I don't grudge you your success, but don't don't bear me a grudge! Don't turn my boy against me!" "Mrs Greville!" gasped Elma, breathlessly. "Mrs Greville!" She pulled her hand from Geoffrey's grasp, and rose swiftly to her feet. "Oh, please don't think that I could be so mean! I want him to love you more, not less. I want to be a real daughter!
"I have an offer of a clerkship, at a very good salary, eighteen hundred dollars a year!" "We can get along admirably with that!" said Elma, with a bright smile. "You know we are retrenching our expenses so much, that we can live on half that, and the rest can go towards your debts. In a few years you will be able to pay all you owe, will you not?"
"I would, because I am fond of her, and she has got into the most awful scrape at school. Don't you put any spoke in her wheel, mother, for goodness' sake!" At that moment the latchkey was heard in the lock, and Elma herself appeared on the scene. "Oh, good gracious! Elma," cried Carrie, darting up to her sister, and beginning to whisper vigorously into her ear.
Now, cheer up, and show me the ready resolution you have always had at hand." "I never had such a cruel blow as this before!" returned Elma, in an entire abandonment of grief. "Oh! take me with you, Horace, and nothing in the world will be hard for me." The wife's pleadings were vain, and in a week she parted from her husband.
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