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Her mind had been reviewing the talk of the evening and revolving about each of the girls in turn; Edith and Katherine and Molly, literary and ambitious; Nance, serious and studious; Jessie, pretty, romantic and destined for marriage; and Margaret, the able and willing champion of suffrage.
"Look at the black hens!" added Edith, bursting into laughter. At either corner of the stone cottage two coal black hens were visible, also like statues, and possessing bright yellow eyes. "And a black dog in a barrel!" Frances fairly shrieked. "Well, a dog has some sense!" said Roger, whistling and calling. Strange to say, the dog neither stirred nor lifted its head.
Only he didn't come home." "You must deny it, Edith," he said, almost fiercely. "She must not know, ever. That is one thing we can save her, and must save her." But, going upstairs as usual before he went out, he realized that Edith was right, and that matters had reached a crisis. The sick woman had eaten nothing, and her eyes were sunken and anxious.
Does not my father think of sending him to England?" "He says that he has not the money," said Edith. "Is it so bad as that with him?" "I am afraid it is very bad, bad at any rate, for the time coming. He has not had a shilling of rent for this spring, and he has to pay the money to Mrs. Pulteney and the others. Poor papa is sorely vexed, and we do not like to press him.
"No, but he's the living image of his father, and I'm very glad. It keeps me from from missing him too much," Madame's voice broke a little on the last words. "It must be lovely to be missed," said Edith, quickly. "Now I " "Dear, haven't you told him yet?" "He's probably discovered it by this time. Still, I don't know I've only been away a week." "It isn't right," said Madame, decidedly.
To them it was intensified, for Edith was a grand city lady, and the inroads that she made on the biscuits, and the zest with which she sipped her tea, showed that her words had the ring of truth. "Do sit down and eat, while things are nice and warm," she said to Hannibal.
At once she realized the horror of her position, and all the incidents of her late adventure came vividly before her mind. Starting up as quickly as her feeble limbs would allow, she indignantly motioned him away. Mowbray, without a word, stepped back and looked down. Edith staggered to her feet. "Miss Dalton," said Mowbray, in a low voice, "your carriage has been sent for.
When Patience and Clara heard that Edward was going over, they obtained leave to go with him to see Alice and Edith, and were to be escorted back by Humphrey. This the intendant consented to, and they had a very merry party. Humphrey remained two days at the intendant's house, and then returned to the cottage, where Edward had taken his place during his absence.
He sat down close to her as she played, so close that her fair ringlets swept against his cheek; and as she sang, she turned towards him with such a loving smile, such a sweet, happy expression, just as she used to wear! I always loved to hear Edith sing; but now my spirit did not harmonize with the strains. Again a stinging sense of injustice quickened the pulsations of my heart.
Dinneford felt the disgrace of having for a son-in-law a condemned criminal, who was only saved from the State's prison by insanity. An insane criminal was not worthy to hold the relation of husband to his pure and lovely child. After a feeble opposition to her father's arguments and persuasions, Edith yielded her consent. An application for a divorce was made, and speedily granted.
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