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Towards morning they were ebbing slowly away. Letty did not know that her husband was watching by her bedside. The street was quiet now. So was the house. Most of its people had been up throughout the night, but now they had all gone to bed except the strange nurse and Mr. Greatorex. It was the morning of Christmas Day, and little Phosy knew it in every cranny of her soul.
It was another instance of her power that she had been able to bind even this young enemy to her chariot-wheels. He hoped Letty had the sense to approve! As a matter of fact, Watton had never, by his own choice, become well acquainted with his cousin Letty, and had always secretly marvelled at Tressady's sudden marriage.
Then she heard his long breath. "Well, we seem to be about quits," he said, in a bitter voice. "Have you seen him since?" "No. That's Grier knocking you'd better go and dress." He paused irresolutely. But Letty said, "Come in," and he retreated into his dressing-room. Husband and wife hurried down together, without another word to each other.
Let us suppose for a moment that we are now engaged upon something of the sort." Letty Shaw shrank back in her chair. Her thin white fingers were gripping its sides. Her eyes seemed to look upon terrible things. "It is too awful!" she faltered. "Madam," Peter Ruff said, firmly, "we seek the truth. Be so good as to humour me in this. Dory, will you go to the front door, stand upon the mat so?
Yes he had better go off to Staffordshire by the early train; and this letter, which he would put upon her writing-desk in the drawing-room, should explain him to Letty. The letter was long and candid, yet by no means without tenderness. "I have written to Asher," it said, "to direct him to send in the morning for the chairs I found in the hall.
About these surface affairs, Godfrey, understanding them better and valuing them more than Tom, had yet taught Letty nothing, judging it premature to teach polishing before carving; and hence this little display of knowledge on the part of Tom impressed Letty more than was adequate so much, indeed, that she began to regard him as a sage, and a compeer of her cousin Godfrey.
To which end she had done her best to strengthen a mean hold on Letty. Now, as she was brushing out Letty's brown hair, and silently putting two and two together the while, an idea occurred to her which pleased her. After Grier had left her, Letty could not make up her mind to go to bed. She was still pacing up and down the room in her dressing-gown, when she heard a knock Grier's knock.
"I was wondering whether Miss Yolland and he " Mary started from her seat, white as the table-cloth. "Letty!" she said, in a voice of utter dismay, "you don't mean that woman is is making friends with him?" "I saw them together more than once, and they seemed well, on very good terms." "Then it is all over with him!" cried Mary, in despair. "O Letty! what is to be done?
Well, 't was a good bargain. Best trade I ever made in my life!" "And we've got to celebrate," said Letty masterfully. "I'll tell you how. I've had it all planned for a month. We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long. We'll take a boat and go out rowin', and we'll eat our dinner on the water!"
"If she is nice," Letty was in the habit of adding, "and of course she will be nice," and at that thought the heart of the young lover escaped, and put forth its wings, and went off into that heaven of ideal excellence and beauty, more sweet, because more vague, than anything real, which stands instead of the old working-day skies and clouds at such a period of life.
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