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There followed much detail, having to do with Hester Keyes' party, to which neither Rosalind nor Ruth Gresham had been invited, for reasons which Rosalind presently made obvious. She continued: "Of course, custom does not permit girls of fourteen to figure prominently at 'coming-out' parties, but after one is there and is relegated to a stair-landing, one may use one's eyes without restriction.
He was pleased to superintend some of the details for a dance at Christmas-time before Virginia left Monticello, but he sat as usual on the stair-landing. There Mr. Mr. Cluyme was so charmed at the facility with which Eliphalet recounted the rise and fall of sugar and cotton and wheat that he invited Mr. Hopper to dinner.
Scarcely anything short of a steamer's roof or a light-house window could have offered a finer stand-point from which to sweep a glass round the southern semi-circle of water and sky than did this stair-landing; and here, a long ship's-glass in her hands, and the accustomed look of care on her face, faintly frowning against the glare of noonday, stood Mary Richling.
Brother Robinson and another minister, hearing of his 'trial', had come to see him. I told him this upon the stair-landing in a whisper. He was strangely troubled. 'They will want me to lay bare my heart. I cannot do it. Paul, stay with me. They mean well; but as for spiritual help at such a time it is God only, God only, who can give it. So I went in with him.
Ample time passed for one to have walked the distance twice from the station to the Hall, but no one came. It was half-past six when they filed down to dinner. The halls were lighted, and all the chandeliers in the great dining-room glowed. As they passed the window on the stair-landing, Lloyd pressed her face against the pane and peered out into the darkness.
P'r'aps you know him, sir?" Whether or no, the name has had effect electrically on its hearer, who struggles frantically painfully hopelessly for speech. The officer says commiseratingly: "Poor devil! he's quite off his jaw"; and then, going to the open window, calls out to his mates of the river-service, below in the garden: "Keep an eye on the roof, boys." Then he goes out on the stair-landing.
The evening passed, and they went to bed without anything happening. But in the partial darkness of the stair-landing, he seized her hand passionately, and said "Good-night, my Elizabeth, my my Elizabeth!" She was not in a condition to return the pressure of his hand, and when he approached his lips to her forehead, she hastily drew herself away.
David and the Squire went out like two men who had suddenly grown old, and had not the strength to walk rapidly. No one thought any more of breakfast. It was half-past seven by the old tall clock that stood upon the stair-landing. It would not be long before Aunt Polly and Uncle Joab would be driving up to the door.
Rosalind had not told him that she had recognized him, that during the ten years of his exile he had been her ideal, but she could close her eyes at this minute and imagine herself on the stair-landing at Hester Keyes' party, could feel the identical wave of thrilling admiration that had passed over her when her gaze had first rested on him.
When Mary and Dick threw open the hall door of the apartment, so as to make the interior visible from the obscurity of the stair-landing, Millard, who was sitting with his back to the door, holding Tommy on his lap, heard the voice of Phillida Callender say: "I'll not go in this time; you have company." "Do come in; it's only our Cousin Charley," pleaded Mary Martin, a girl of fourteen.
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