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And he says he'll give me a ride, but not yet. He wants to see papa. Make haste, papa." Faith dropped her towel, and as Mr. Gartney rose to go out and meet his visitor, just whispered, hurriedly, to her mother: "I'll come down again. I'll see him before he goes." And escaped up the kitchen staircase to her own room. Paul Rushleigh came, he told Mr.
That ankle of hers is troublesome, and she had something of an ill turn last night, and called me over this morning. She seems to have taken a sort of fancy that she'd like to have you there." "I'll come." And Faith went back, quickly, as Dr. Wasgatt departed, to make his errand known, and to ask if Mr. Rushleigh would mind driving her round to Cross Corners, after going to his mills.
But she saw that Miss Henderson spoke only truth in declaring it was the best way to take her out of her worries; she read Nurse Sampson's look, and saw that she, at any rate, was quite resolved her patient should not be let to dwell longer on any painful or apprehensive thought, and she put off all her own anxious questionings, till she should see the nurse alone, and said, in a low tone yes, Paul Rushleigh had been there.
When she came out, she was joined; and not by strangers. Margaret and Paul Rushleigh came eagerly to her side. "We came out to Lakeside to stay a day or two with the Morrises; and ran away from them here, purposely to meet you. And we mean to be very good, and go to church all day, if you will take us home with you meanwhile."
"I'm sure I can't tell what has come over you! She can't ever have thought of anybody else! And she seems quite one of ourselves." "Yes; that's just the uncertainty," replied Mr. Rushleigh. "Whether it isn't as much Margaret, and you and I, as Paul. Whether she fully knows what she is about. She can't marry the family, you know.
I can take all I shall need before to-morrow in my little morocco bag. I won't keep you waiting a minute," she added, turning to Mr. Rushleigh. "I can wait twenty, if you wish," he answered kindly. But in less than ten, they were driving down toward the river.
Gartney found her daughter's agitated note of pained avowal, that she "had come, through all this, to know herself better, and to feel sure that this marriage ought not to be"; that, in short, all was at length over between her and Paul Rushleigh.
Rushleigh listened, giving his whole sympathy to the danger she had faced, his fresh and fervent acknowledgment and admiring praise to the prompt daring she had shown, as if these things, and naught else, had been in either mind. At these thanks at this praise Faith shrank. "Oh, Mr. Rushleigh!" she interrupted, with a low, pained, humbled entreaty "don't speak so! Only forgive me if you can!"
It was a suggestion of real rest to Faith this free companionship with Margaret again, in the old, girlish fashion and the very thoughtful look, that was almost sad, which had become habitual to her face, of late, brightened into the old, careless pleasure, as she spoke. Old Mr. Rushleigh saw something in this that began to seem to him more than mere maidenly shyness.
On Faith's part, a patient waiting for a trial yet before her. "It's Mr. Rushleigh, come over to see Miss Faith. Shall I bring him in?" asked Glory, at the door. "Will you mind it, aunt?" asked Faith. "I? No," said Miss Henderson. "Will you mind my being here? That's the question. I'd take myself off, without asking, if I could, you know." "Dear Aunt Faith! There is something I have to say to Mr.
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