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The secrets were secrets through the day; and Mrs. Linceford had her quiet fun, and opportunity for her demure teasing. "How long since Outledge was discovered and settled? by the moderns, I mean," said Mr. Wharne. "What chance will one really have of quiet there?" "Well, really, to be honest, Mr. Wharne, I'm afraid Outledge will be just at the rampant stage this summer.
Dakie Thayne rushed about in a sort of general satisfaction which would not let him be quiet anywhere. Outsiders looked with a kind of new, half-jealous respect on these privileged few who had so suddenly become the "General's party." Sin Saxon whispered to Leslie Goldthwaite, "It's neither his nor mine, honeysuckle; it's yours, Henny-penny and all the rest of it, as Mrs. Linceford said."
Linceford and her sisters must go, it seemed so exactly the thing for them to fall into; otherwise Miss Goldthwaite's journey hither would hardly seem to have been worth while.
I alwers did like to see passin." The attitudes inside the blinds were something, at this moment. Mrs. Linceford, in a spasm of suppressed laughter herself, held her handkerchief to her lips with one hand, and motioned peremptory silence to the girls with the other. Jeannie was noiselessly clapping her hands, and dancing from one toe to the other with delight.
The pivot of the little solar system was changed; but the chief planets made but slight account of that; they just felt that it had grown very warm and bright. "O Chicken Little!" Mrs. Linceford cried to Leslie Goldthwaite, giving her a small shake with her good-night kiss at her door. "How did you know the sky was going to fall? And how have you led us all this chase to cheat Fox Lox at last?"
"Miss Goldthwaite Miss Walcott; Miss Shannon Miss Goldthwaite; my sister, Mrs. Linceford." "Me voici!" And a third came up suddenly, laying a hand upon each of the Haddens from behind. "You, Sin Saxon! How many more?" "We're coming, Father Abraham! All of us, nearly, three hundred thousand more or less; half the Routh girls, with Madam to the fore!"
"I like him; he's got something to say," returned Leslie. "Augusta's looking at you, like a hen after a stray chicken. She's all but clucking now." "Mr. Wharne will tell her." But Mr. Wharne was not in the room. He came back just as Leslie was making her way again, after the dance, to Mrs. Linceford.
The girls asked all their partners in the German, and the matronly ladies were asked, as a good many respectable people are civilly invited where their declining is counted upon. Leslie Goldthwaite, and the Haddens, and Mrs. Linceford, and the Thoresbys were all asked, and might come if they chose. Their stay would be another matter. And so the evening and the German went on.
Linceford said to Dakie Thayne next morning. "Everybody would have" She stopped. She could not tell this boy to his frank face that everybody would have thought more and made more of him because his uncle had got brave stars on his shoulders, and his father had died leaving two millions or so of dollars. "I know they would have," said Dakie Thayne. "That was just it.
"Only two days here?" they began to say, when they gathered in Mrs. Linceford's room at nearly tea-time, after a rest and freshening of their toilets. "We might stay longer," Mrs. Linceford answered. "But the rooms are taken for us at Outledge, and one can't settle and unpack, when it's only a lingering from day to day. All there is here one sees from the windows.
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