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What have you done to yourself?" Winnie, bringing in the later-comer's oatmeal, took one hasty glance. "My land, Sarah, have you been walking in your sleep?" she asked in alarm. "You look as though you'd fallen out of a window and landed on your face." Sarah's eyes filled with tears and two splashed down into her lap. She looked at Doctor Hugh, who nodded to her encouragingly.
"Don't fear for my strength I've got plenty of it, thank God! and see, I have my right arm wedged into a crevice so firmly that nothing could haul it out." But Van der Kemp shook his head. "I cannot even make the attempt," he said. "The slightest move would plunge me down. Dear boy! I know that you and your father and Moses will care for my Winnie, and "
"You don't understand, Winnie," said the girl sharply. "Unless you're pretending. Now you've never told me anything about yourself, and I've always told you lots about myself. You belong to an old-fashioned family. How were you treated when you were my age?" "In what way?" "You know what way," said Audrey, gazing at her. "Well, my dear. Things seemed to come very naturally, somehow."
Then seeing my attention fixed she turned her head, and glanced back sadly toward the place of battle, and gave a little wistful neigh: and then looked me full in the face again, as much as to say, "Do you understand?" while she scraped with one hoof impatiently. If ever a horse tried hard to speak, it was Winnie at that moment. I went to her side and patted her; but that was not what she wanted.
She meditated for a few seconds on the best method of punishment, and then said coldly, "I shall say nothing further in the meantime, Winnie, concerning your flagrant act of disobedience in connection with Miss Latimer. When you feel truly penitent, and confess your sorrow, I shall be pleased to accept your apology; but I insist on a letter being written to Miss Irvine now.
Even Aunt Trudy stared at her, surprised, and the practical Sarah was moved to protest. "I think your hair is nice the way it is," she said. "I'd leave it alone if I were you." Winnie paused, on her way to the kitchen. "Don't let Doctor Hugh hear you say any such nonsense," she scolded. "The idea! Bobbing a head of hair like that it's going directly against the generosity of the Lord!"
Thus Winnie prompted the sister now compelled to relinquish the honors and dignities attaching to the post of baby of the family. And Essie, nodding her little tow head, laid a rose-leaf cheek against the crumpled carnation of the newcomer. "Nice litty brudder," she cooed. "Essie loves 'oo."
"I can't leave her here." "And why not? She has Miss Ingate." "Yes, worse luck for her! Winnie would make the most dreadful mess of things if she wasn't stopped. If Winnie was right out of it, and Jane Foley had only herself and Aguilar to count on, there might be a chance. But not else." "It is by pure hazard that you are here. Nobody expected you.
Montague was trembling in every nerve; he felt like a man caught in a net. Mrs. Winnie had had everything she ever wanted in her life; and now she wanted him! It was impossible for her to face any other thought. "Listen," he began gently. But she saw the look of resistance in his eyes, and she cried "No no don't! I cannot do without you! Think! I love you! What more can I say to you?
"Nonsense, dear," answered the kind voice, and Miss Latimer's smile was very bright. "Remember I am an old woman, and pain leaves traces on an aged face. What about yourself, Winnie? is the darkness brightening yet?" "I think so, Aunt Judith; and Dick helped me so much. Perhaps the beautiful life is within my reach after all."
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