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For the first time Taffy felt ashamed of his working-suit, and would have slipped back to the church. But George had seen him, and pulled up. "Hullo!" said he. "Hullo!" said Taffy; and, absurdly enough, could find no more to say. "How are you getting on?" "Oh, I'm all right." There was another pause. "How's Honoria?" "Oh, she's all right. I'm riding over there now: they meet at Tredinnis to-day."
Come at once." There was no signature. Yet Taffy knew who had ridden to the office with that telegram. The flying dark held visions of her, and the express throbbed westward to the beat of Aide-de-camp's gallop. Nor was he surprised at all to find her on the platform at Truro Station. The Tredinnis phaeton was waiting outside.
After a while it struck me that he might be sleeping here over at Tredinnis; that is, if no accident had happened. No sleep for me until I made sure; so I jumped out, dressed, slipped down to the stables, saddled the mare and rode over.
"Taffy," said his mother, touching his hand, "leave all this to me until your degree is taken. You have a race to run and must not start unprepared. If you could have seen his joy when the news came of the demy-ship!" Taffy kissed her and went up to his room. He found his books laid out on the little table there. "TREDINNIS, February 13, 18 ."
But he is clever enough to see that it worries George." "I saw both your father and mother this morning. Mr. Raymond has been kept to the house by a chill; nothing serious: but he is fretting to be out again and at work in that draughty church. He will accept no help; and the mistress of Tredinnis has no right to press it on him. I shall never understand men and how they fight.
It appeared that Honoria and Taffy were to do lessons together, and Mr. Raymond was to teach them. This had been the meaning of his visit to Tredinnis House.
He led Honoria by the hand, entered the Tredinnis pew and shut the door with a slam. It was the only pew left unmutilated. The rest of the congregation and curiosity made it larger than usual had to stand; but a wife of one of the miners found a hassock and passed it to Humility, who thanked her for it with brimming eyes. Mr. Raymond said afterward that this was the first success of the campaign.
I wish " She was about to say that she wished Humility would come to Tredinnis. But her eyes wandered to the orderly dresser and the scalding-pans by the fireplace. "I mean if Taffy had a sister it would be different." Humility bent to lift a kettle off the fire. When she faced round again, her eyes were smiling though her lip trembled a little.
Taffy had never heard her speak at all like this. "But you are going to Carwithiel, and George is famous company." "I am going over to Carwithiel because I hate Tredinnis. I hate every stone of it, and will sell the place as soon as ever I come of age. And George is the best fellow in the world. And we shall talk of you.
"I can tell by the seal." "Take it home, then," said the postman. "Only if you think 'tis for the sake of a twiddling sixteen shilling a week that I traipse all these miles every day " Taffy fingered the seal. "If you would really like to know " "Don't 'ee mention it. Not on any account." He waved his hand magnanimously and trudged off toward Tredinnis.
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