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For, to tell the truth, he had rather forced himself up to Harley Street this evening, with a view of getting over an awkward meeting, awkward even in the presence of Captain Lennox and Edith, and doubly awkward now that he found her the only lady there, and the person to whom he must naturally and perforce address a great part of his conversation.
Edith stood silent and grave not speaking. She motioned him hastily to come away. He obeyed. Another moment, and they stood together under the blue bright sky. "Oh!" Edith said, under her breath, "who did it?" "Who indeed? And yet Lady Helena knows." His face and tone were sombre. How dare they let her lie in her unavenged grave?
The woman was calling loudly to Edith to come to her immediately. "Edith Miss Edith Congdon," said the Governor, smiling. "Your mother wants you very, very much and I've come to take you to her. If you will jump into the car you will see her very soon. We must be in a hurry or that woman will catch you. You needn't have a fear in the world. Will you trust me?"
After lunch they drove out into the country and paid a call. On the way back Edith noticed a beggar, a young, slender, very delicate-looking girl, lying across the footpath with her feet toward the road. A tiny baby lay on her lap.
"Thank God it was not you instead of me. I have been thinking of it as I lay here in the night, and have blamed myself greatly. It is my business and not yours." And then again further on in the day he sent a message to Edith. "Tell her from me that it is all over now, but that had I lived she would have had to be my wife."
Edith meanwhile had developed into a beautiful girl, and had she really been, as she believed herself, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Quintin, she could not have been more beloved by them. The former enjoined me never to reveal the secret of her birth to his daughter as he called her, and so her life, at least, was not darkened in the least by the knowledge of the truth.
"Child," she said, putting her hand upon Edith's fair locks; "this is the man thou shalt see but twice in thy life; look up, and mark well!" Edith instinctively raised her eyes, and, once fixed upon the knight, they seemed chained as by a spell.
You had been driven off; I alone was left, and she implored me by my love for her to stand by her. I wished her to take her own little property and go with me and Edith where we might all live in seclusion together; but this she would not do for fear of staining the proud Brandon name. "Potts grew worse and worse every year.
You remember him, darling?" "Yes, he made me Arthur's wife; but I wish he hadn't for then you would not look so white and sorry." "Never mind that," returned Edith, "but listen to the message he sent his little Snowdrop," and she read what Richard had written to Nina. "I wish I could be one of those bright angels," Nina said, mournfully, when Edith finished reading; "but, Miggie, Nina's so bad.
"Scamper; the whole bevy of you," said the old lady, laughing; and Edith, with a sigh, contrasted this "mother's room" with the one which she and her sisters shunned as the place where their "teeth were set on edge." "My dear," said Mrs. Hart, her face becoming grave and troubled, "there is one thing in my Christian work that discourages me.
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