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I was going to explain the matter myself, but was glad to have Mona take it out of my hands. The most difficult task yet remained. I must tell Avis how affairs stood; and yet, was it the proper thing for me to do? I wondered how the delicate subject of making love was handled in Mars, where the two sexes were perfectly equal. Which one was to make the advances?
"We shall take all our lunches together before long, I hope, my darling," he whispered, fondly; "half the stipulated time is gone, Mona, and I shall certainly claim you at the end of another six weeks." Mona flushed, but she did not reply, and her heart grew heavy, for she knew she should not be willing to become Ray's wife until she could prove the circumstances of her birth.
Montague, frowning, for the girl, who so closely resembled the rival she hated, coming to her just at that moment, irritated her exceedingly. "I simply upset something just as you knocked. What do you want?" "I only came to ask if I should finish your tea-gown in the morning, or do the mending, as usual;" Mona replied. "Finish the tea-gown. I shall need it for the afternoon."
Now, I want you to go with me, Ruth, to help arrange my different costumes, and to act as a kind of dressing-maid you have such good taste and judgment. Will you go? You will, of course, be relieved from your regular work, while, perhaps, you will find the rest and change agreeable." Mona thought a few moments before replying. Her only objection to going with Mrs.
And, I kissed her the moment I saw her!" "Oh, Cousin William!" cried Azalea, "did you really? What did she say?" "Flew at me like a small cyclone of wrath! But as I had mistaken her for my cousin Mona, she couldn't hold me very guilty." "Yes! A lot Patty looks like me!" said Mona, who was a dark-haired beauty.
Mona unhesitatingly reached out her hands to him; he grasped them firmly; she stepped upon the railing, and the next moment was swung safely over the space between the two balconies, and stood beside her unknown friend.
The deadly truth was out at last, and Mona, smitten with despair, overcome by the revelation of the dastardly plot of which she was the victim, sank helplessly upon the nearest chair, quivering with shame and horror in every nerve, and nearly fainting from the shock which the knowledge of her terrible danger had sent vibrating through her very soul.
Mona inquired, with an amused smile. "I imagine there will be something of a breeze about my ears, for she informed me this morning that I need have no hopes or aspirations regarding you upon the strength of any attention that you bestowed upon me at Hazeldean, for you were already engaged," and a little ripple of merry laughter concluded the sentence.
Graves tried to persuade Mona to go home with him and remain until she could decide what she wished to do in the future, or, he told her, she was welcome to remain and make it her home indefinitely. But she quietly thanked and informed him that she had already arranged to go as seamstress to a lady on West Forty-ninth street. "You go as a seamstress?" exclaimed the lawyer, aghast.
Mona had never looked so well, and Roger, who was Father Nile, expressed his admiration frankly. "I say, Mona," he declared, "if the real Cleo Pat looked like you, I don't blame old Mark for flirting with her. Maybe I'll flirt with you before the evening is over." "Ha! Minion! Methinks thou art presumptuous!" said Mona, marching about theatrically.
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