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I think your mother intends accompanying him?" "It had been talked of," Faith said; "and perhaps her father would be very glad to go when he could leave her in such good keeping. She would tell him what Mr. Rushleigh had been so kind as to propose."
Margaret Rushleigh said this, standing on the threshold of a little inner apartment that opened from the long drawing-room, at one end. She held in her hand a large and beautiful volume a gift of Christmas Day. "Here are Fates for everybody who cares to find them out!"
For years, Faith had found great pleasantness in the companionship and evident preference of Paul Rushleigh. There had been nobody to compare with him in her young set in Mishaumok. She knew he liked her. She had been proud of it. The girlish fancy, that may be forgotten in after years, or may, fostered by circumstance, endure and grow into a calm and happy wifehood, had been given to him.
"Can't you women tell what's the matter with each other?" said Mr. Rushleigh to his daughter, who entered by the other door, as Faith went out into the hall. "What ails Faith, Margaret?" "Nothing of consequence, I think. She is tired with all that has been going on, lately. And then she's the shyest little thing!" "It's a sort of shyness that don't look so happy as it might, it seems to me.
"You are a good girl; and I don't blame you; yet I thought you would have been safe and happy, so." "I am safe and happy here at home," said Faith. "Home is in no hurry to spare you, my child." And Faith felt taken back to daughterhood once more. Margaret Rushleigh had been to see her, before this.
"We are going to make our first claim upon you, Faith," said the elder Mr. Rushleigh, as he led his daughter-in-law elect out on the broad piazza under the Italian awnings, when the slight summer evening repast was ended. "We want to borrow you, while madam and the yonker are gone. Your father tells me he wishes to make a Western journey. Now, why not send him off at this very time?
Philip Rushleigh were, and where he was to leave her for the remainder of their stay. Margaret liked Kinnicutt better than any watering-place; and she and her father had made a little plan of their own, which, if Faith would go back with him, they would explain to her. So Faith went over to Lakeside to tea, and heard the plan.
And that is all that need be said." The conversation, after this, could not be prolonged. Mr. Rushleigh took his leave, kindly, as he had made his greeting. "Oh, Aunt Faith! What a terrible thing I have done!" "What a terrible thing you came near doing, you mean, child! Be thankful to the Lord He's delivered you from it! And look well to the rest of your life, after all this.
She couldn't quite resist her newly returned sister. Besides, a pressing personal invitation had come from Margaret Rushleigh to Faith herself, with a little private announcement at the end, that "Paul was refractory, and utterly refused to act as fourth groomsman, unless Faith Gartney were got to come and stand with him."
Paul Rushleigh had more significant words, and another gift of flowers as a farewell. When she carried these last to her own room, to put them in water, on her return, something she had not noticed before glittered among their stems. It was a delicate little ring, of twisted gold, with a forget-me-not in turquoise and enamel upon the top.
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