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This seemed so much less than calling on Mr. Peck that Annie looked out at Mrs. Munger's basket-phaeton at her gate, and knew that she would go with very little more urgence. "After all, you know, you're not one of his congregation; he may yield to them," said Mrs. Munger. "We must have him if only because he's hard to get. It'll give us an idea of what we've got to contend with."
Munger, who spent her winters as well as her summers there, penetrated as far as the library, upon her own sense of what was due to herself as a neighbor; but she failed to find either of the sisters. She had to content herself with urging Mrs. Morrell, the wife of the doctor, to join her in a second attempt upon their privacy; but Mrs.
Munger are old friends." The young fellow bowed silently, and Annie instantly took a dislike to him, his heavy jaw, long eyes, and low forehead almost hidden under a thick bang. He sat down cornerwise on a chair, and listened, with a scornful thrust of his thick lips, to their talk. Mrs. Munger was not abashed by him.
"I know just how you feel about it, my dear," said Mrs. Munger. "'Been there myself, as Jim says. But it grows upon you. I'm glad you didn't refuse outright;" and Mrs. Munger looked at her with eyes of large expectance. "No, I didn't," said Annie, obliged by this expectance to say something. "But to tell you the truth, Mrs. Munger, I don't see how I'm to be of any use to you or to Mr. Brandreth."
"Oh, am I such an influential person?" said Mrs. Wilmington, with a shrug. "It's rather awful isn't it, Annie?" "Not at all!" Mrs. Munger answered for Annie. "We've just been talking the matter over with Mr. Putney and Dr. Morrell, and they're both opposed. You're merely the straw that breaks the camel's back, Mrs. Wilmington." "Oh, thank you! That's a great relief."
"No!" shouted Mrs. Munger. "I thought she had refused positively. When did she change her mind?" "She's just sent Percy a note. We were talking it over when you came, and Percy was going over to tell you." "Then it is sure to be a success," said Mrs. Munger, with a solemnity of triumph. "Yes, but Percy feels that it complicates one point more than ever "
Gerrish followed his guests down the store, and even out upon the sidewalk, where he presided with unheeded hospitality over the superfluous politeness of Putney and Dr. Morrell in putting Mrs. Munger and Annie into the phaeton. Mrs. Munger attempted to drive away without having taken up her hitching weight.
I don't know about not letting the hands stay to the dance and supper, Mrs. Munger. You know I might feel 'put upon. I used to be one of the hands myself. Yes, Annie, there was a time after you went away, and after father died, when I actually fell so low as to work for an honest living." "I think I heard, Lyra," said Annie; "but I had forgotten."
"I don't know, I'm sure," said Annie. "I suppose Mrs. Munger." A burst of music came from the dense shadow into which the group of evergreens at the bottom of the tennis-court deepened away from the glister of the electrics. There was a deeper hush; then a slight jarring and scraping of a chair beyond Mrs.
It was much easier defying Ainger in his absence than in his presence, and now that he stood there and confronted them, the delinquents did not quite feel the hardy men of war they had been five minutes ago. Munger, however, tried to carry the thing off with a bluster. "We don't see the fun of being compelled to go every time. We don't care about cricket; besides we don't mean to go.
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