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Even Gilbert was fain to forget his own troubles and enjoy life a little in that agreeable society. The two gentlemen accompanied the ladies back to the drawing-room. There was a grand piano in the front room, and to this Adela Branston went at Mr. Saltram's request, and began to play some of Handel's oratorio music, while he stood beside the piano, talking to her as she played. Mrs.
"Everything makes more difference to you, Kitty," remarked Gilbert. "I mean I'm always fourth when the cake plate's passed, in everything! Now Julia'll be fourth, and I shall be fifth; it's lucky people can't tumble off the floor!" "Poor abused Kathleen!" cried Gilbert.
Well, I must be going, too." Anne and Gilbert discreetly melted away; but when Owen had gone Anne returned, to find Leslie standing by the hearth. "Oh, Leslie I know and I'm so glad, dear," she said, putting her arms about her. "Anne, my happiness frightens me," whispered Leslie. "It seems too great to be real I'm afraid to speak of it to think of it.
Beulah's good for something better than a place to hide in! We'll have to save every penny at first, of course, but in three or four years Gilly and I ought to be earning something." "The trouble is, I can't earn anything in college," objected Gilbert, "though I'd like to." "That will be the only way a college course can come to you now, Gilbert," his mother said quietly.
"I'm glad it's so full of old-fashioned flowers. Speaking of gardening, we want to get a man to dig up that little lot beyond the fir grove and set it out with strawberry plants for us. Gilbert is so busy he will never get time for it this fall. Do you know anyone we can get?" "Well, Henry Hammond up at the Glen goes out doing jobs like that. He'll do, maybe.
She knew well enough why Nettie Gilbert had arranged this particular Sunday supper with the intimacy of only four guests Milly was very much awake now socially and she had taken pains to examine the new young man with critical care. He was little, scarcely taller than Horatio, and Milly disliked men whose heads she could look across. But with a silk hat it might not be too bad.
I know what your free-will is in their hands, and yet I thought you cared for your brother enough to guard him, if not yourself. 'If you knew the coercion, muttered Gilbert. 'I protest, as I would to my dying day, that I had no intention of going near the stables when I set out, and would never have consented could I have helped it. 'And why could not you help it? Gilbert gasped.
"I don't care what they say, Deborah!" Gilbert cried. "I know that you are a true and faithful friend to me, and I've not had so many such in my life that I'm likely to forget what you've tried to do!" Her hard, melancholy face became at once eager and tender. She stepped forward, put her hand on Gilbert's arm, and said, in a hoarse, earnest, excited whisper, "Then maybe you'll take it?
Once upon a time, Anne had been made to sit with Gilbert for punishment and sad and bitter had been the consequences thereof. "Well, time will tell which is the best way," said Jane philosophically as they parted.
Joe and Jake Fairthorn rushed up with a whoop, and before Gilbert could satisfy the curiosity of the tavern-idlers, the former sat behind Sally, on the old mare, with his face to her tail, while Jake, prevented by Miss Deane's riding-whip from attempting the same performance, capered behind the horses and kept up their spirits by flinging handfuls of sand.
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