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'The message came last night. After that they could not shake her, although Belle hung about her tearfully. Russell and Gwen protested, Aunt Rutha looked at her with sorrowful eyes, and Mr Davis repeated that the very idea was absurd, as he paced up and down with a strange huskiness in his throat. 'I have come to say good-bye, my lady.
Belle entered Pauline's room to find her cousin revelling in the exquisite pathos of Whittier's Snowbound before dressing for dinner. The problem of clothes had been solved by Aunt Rutha in her pleasant, tactful way.
'It has been such a happy day, she had told Aunt Rutha, as, after the merry supper was over, she had stood by her side in the soft-lighted library. 'Such a happy day, without a flaw! And now already it seemed to be fading into the dim, dim past!
Her own father! He might at least have trusted her! She started, for her uncle was saying: 'This is your Aunt Rutha, my dear, and turned to be clasped in tender arms, and hear a sweet voice whisper the all-sufficient introduction: 'I loved your mother.
Her thoughts flew to the blue-draped chamber, and the soft lighted library, where she could almost see Uncle Robert and Aunt Rutha, and Belle and Richard, and Russell and Gwen. But they might not be there yet; they had set apart this night, she remembered, to run over for a look through the big telescope.
Always this beautiful comradeship with father and mother; and Aunt Rutha was so lovely she stopped abruptly. She would not change mothers. No, no, she would be loyal, even in thought, to the pale, tired woman, whom she could remember kissing her passionately in the twilight, while bitter tears rained on her childish, upturned face. She would not let the demon of discontent spoil her visit.
"now there is a shoe, or call it a slippa, that I've rutha hesitated about showin' to you, because I know that you're all rutha serious-minded, I don't ca'e how young ye be, or how good-lookin' ye be; and I don't presume the'e's one among you that's eve head o' dancin'." In the mirthful hooting and mocking that followed, the shoeman hedged gravely from the extreme position he had taken. "What?
Oh, I am sorry! and catching up her silver-mounted riding whip Pauline threw her habit over her arm, and ran down to where Richard Everidge held the handsome bay mare which had been her uncle's gift. The letter she had tossed lightly on the table. It was from her father, but it would keep. There was never any news at Sleepy Hollow. Aunt Rutha watched the merry party as they cantered off.
She would put by and forget while she enjoyed this wonderful slice of pleasure that had come to her. There was just as much greed in her wanting happiness wholesale as in Lemuel's crying for the whole loaf of gingerbread; the only difference was in the measure of their capacity. 'What is it, dear? asked Aunt Rutha, with an amused smile. 'You have been in the brownest of studies.
She looked up at her brightly. 'I believe it was a briar tangle, Aunt Rutha, of the worst kind; but I shall see daylight soon, thank you. Mrs Davis laid her hand on her husband's arm. 'Your penknife, Robert. Our little girl here is tied up in a Gordian knot, and we must help to set her free. Her uncle laughed as he opened the pearl-handled weapon.
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