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Hugh did not answer, for the face she turned to him, in its half-tearful, half-bright submission, took away his speech. "Why, you cannot have enjoyed yourself as much as we thought, Fleda, if you dislike the city so much." "Yes, I did. Oh, I enjoyed a great many things. I enjoyed being with the Evelyns.
The night before the party went down to Belforest, where they were to meet the Evelyns, Allen lingered with his mother after all the rest had gone upstairs. "Mother," he said, "I have thought a great deal of that dream of yours. I hope that the touch of Midas may not be baneful this time." "I trust not, my dear; you have had a taste of the stern, rugged nurse."
"Dear uncle, F. has followed you here on business of the greatest importance. Pray let her see you she is at the old place." "It will not do," thought Fleda again, "there is still less to catch his eye I cannot trust it. And if I were to put 'Queechy' over it, that would give the clue to the Evelyns and everybody. But I had better risk anything rather than his seeing it "
This bunch came to-day, 'for Miss Evelyn', so Florence will have it it is hers, and it's very mean of her, for I am perfectly certain it is mine; it's come from somebody who wasn't enlightened on the subject of my family circle, and has innocently imagined that two Miss Evelyns could not belong to the same one!
"Oh they will last a great while," said Fleda smiling. But the next morning Mrs. Pritchard came into her room with a great bunch of roses, the very like of the one Fleda had had at the Evelyns'. She delivered them with a sort of silent triumph, and then as before stood by to enjoy Fleda and the flowers together.
I was paid a most brilliant compliment the other day upon my roses Uncle, don't listen to him! he hasn't been in a decent humour since the Evelyns went away." She knelt down before him and laid her hands upon his and looked up in his face to bring all her plea; the plea of most winning sweetness of entreaty in features yet flushed and trembling.
Gregory staid two or three days, and then went on to Boston, leaving Fleda in no want of him. Mrs. Pritchard was the tenderest and carefullest of nurses. The Evelyns did everything but nurse her. They sat by her, talked to her, made her laugh, and not seldom made her look sober too, with their wild tales of the world and the world's doings.
"Absurd!" said Charlton. "Very," said Fleda; "but on which side, in all probability, is the pride?" "It wasn't for liveried servants that I charged Mr. Carleton," said her cousin. "How do the Evelyns like this paragon of yours?" "Oh, everybody likes him, " said Fleda, smiling, "except you and your friend, Mr. Thorn." "Thorn don't like him, eh?" "I think not."
Their intercourse had never received the check that circumstances had interposed between others of the two families, Armine had spent part of almost all his vacations with the Evelyns, the correspondence had been a great solace to the invalid, and the friendship grew yearly more equal. Armine was to join the Evelyn party when they went to the seaside, as they intended to do on leaving London.
"Unless she has forgotten herself strangely," said Charlton. "Talk! she will talk to anybody's satisfaction that happens to differ from her; and I think her tongue cares very little which language it wags in. There is no danger about Fleda's enjoying herself, where people are talking." Fleda laughed at him, and the Evelyns rather stared at them both. "But we are all going to Mrs.
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