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I had never been away from father and Abby in my life, and though Hallie Ferguson and Estrella Mendez went also, I was very homesick. There was nothing at all interesting at the convent, nothing but pepper trees, and nun's black hoods, and books.
Bassett had several times detected her husband in an exchange of smiles with the young woman, and Marian and the usurper got on famously. Mrs. Bassett had observed that Sylvia's appetite was excellent, and this had weakened her belief in the girl's genius; there was a good deal of Early-Victorian superstition touching women in Hallie Bassett! But Mrs. Owen was speaking.
She looked at him suspiciously an instant, then handed him the basket. "Take these aigs ovah to Miss Hallie," she ordered, "and mind you be quickah'n you was last time, or they might hatch befo' you get there." "Law now, Mammy!" said John Jay, with a grin.
This bright June morning she stood in the door with a basket of fresh eggs in her hand, looking anxiously across the fields to the gables of Rosehaven, and grumbling to herself. "Heah I done promise Miss Hallie these fresh aigs for her bufday cake, an' no way to get 'em to her.
Bassett had rested his hand on Dan's shoulder for a moment as the younger man bent over one of the prized volumes, and Dan was not insensible to the friendliness of the act. Mrs. Bassett and the two children appeared at the door a little later. "Come in, Hallie," said the politician; "all of you come in." He introduced the reporter to his wife and to Marian, the daughter, and Blackford, the son.
"An' ef you wan' sech a crazy ol' fool, you'd come along wid me, too." At this combination of temptation and insult Uncle Billy's eyes narrowed with contempt and loathing. "Me?" he said, and a rigid arm pointed back at the house which had been for years his source of shelter and comfort. "Me leave Miss Hallie now?
Left to herself for the greater part of the warm afternoon, Mrs. Bassett had indulged luxuriously in forebodings. She had not expected her husband, and his unannounced entrance startled her. "Well," she remarked drearily, "so you have come back to face it, have you?" "I'm undoubtedly back, Hallie," he answered, with an effort at lightness, crossing to the bedside and taking her hand.
And then everything is so peaceful over there, the garden is so quiet, and they are so calm! I think I should love to; and oh, dear, Hallie, you don't know! I am very unhappy!" Hallie put her arm around me and said firmly, "You will do no such thing! You will come to Estrella's party to-night and forget all about convents and such hateful things!
"How is it, then, that newspapers away off in New York and Massachusetts speak of you in this outrageous fashion? They're so far away that it seems strange they speak of you at all." He laughed with relief, feeling that the question marked a retreat toward weaker fortifications. "You're not very complimentary, are you, Hallie? They must think me of some importance or they'd let me alone.
For a while I was very ill, delirious with fever; and when I was myself again and the doctor would let me be talked to, the new trial was all over, and Johnny Montgomery had been acquitted a week ago. It was Hallie, all smiles, with her hands full of roses, who brought this news in to me; and in a few days, she said, Jack Tracy had told her, Montgomery was going to leave the city.
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