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Drane immediately, and for you to send Cicely home and give her a lot of work to do at Cobhurst. They should go there this afternoon." "Yes," said the doctor; "of course, the sooner the better; but it has struck me perhaps it might be well to mention the matter to Miss Panney before the Dranes actually leave Mrs. Brinkly. You know she was very active in procuring that place for them." Mrs.
Miss Panney knew as well as any one that immediate employment as a teacher could be rarely obtained in summer, and for this reason she wished to confine her efforts to the immediate neighborhood, where personal persuasion and influence might be brought into action.
Miss Panney raised her eyes from this creation to the face of her hostess. "Kitty," said she, "is this the doctor's birthday?" "No," answered Mrs. Tolbridge, with a smile; "he was born in January." "Yours then, perhaps?" Mrs. Tolbridge shook her head. "A dollar and a half," thought the old lady, "and perhaps more. Five dollars at the very least for the meal.
Miss Panney listened in surprise. "You two seem to know each other better than I supposed," she said. "When did you become acquainted?" "We have met but once before," replied Dora, "but that was rather a peculiar meeting." And then she told the story of her call at Cobhurst, and of the mare's forelock, and the old lady was delighted with the narration.
All this you knew, and without a word to me, and if you speak the truth, all for the sake of your wretched stomach, you clap into Cobhurst a girl who will be engaged to Ralph Haverley in less than a month." The doctor moved impatiently in his chair. "Nonsense, Miss Panney. Cicely Drane will not harm your plans. She is a sensible, industrious girl, who attends to her own business, and "
It is altogether a different question. I am very much attached to the family I first lived with in this country. They are in trouble now, and I think they may need me. If they do, I shall go to them. I have quite settled all that in my mind. I am now waiting for an answer to a letter I have written to Mrs. Drane." "La Fleur," said Miss Panney, "if you leave Dr.
She would be entirely out of place in a house like this." "Her looks were enough to settle her case," said Dora. "You never saw such an old witch; she would frighten the horses." "Kitty Tolbridge," said Miss Panney, severely, "did you ask that woman if she wanted high wages, if she required kitchen maids, if she would be satisfied to cook for your family?"
Tolbridge returned from the visit to the patient who lived beyond Cobhurst, he did not drive into the latter place, for seeing Mike by the gate near the barn, he gave the cushions and whip to him and went on. As it was yet early in the evening, and bright moonlight, he concluded to go around by the Wittons'. It was not far out of his way, and he wanted to see Miss Panney.
This coöperation was very pleasing to him, for Cicely was a girl who knew little about things rural but wanted to know much, and Ralph was a young fellow who liked to teach such girls as Cicely. After her recent quick pull and strong pull, Miss Panney rested placidly on her oars.
It was not noon when Miss Panney left the Bannister house, and the mind of Miss Dora, which had been renewing itself within her with all the vigor and freshness which Dr. Tolbridge had predicted, was at a loss how to occupy itself until dinner-time, which, with the Bannisters and most of the gentlefolk of Thorbury, was at two o'clock. Dora put on her prettiest hat and her wrap and went out.
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