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Young-Dickson who answered the telephone. Yes; the fire was one of the foundry buildings the office, she believed. Mr. Young-Dickson had gone over, and she would have him call up when he should return, if Miss Dabney wished.
Tom saw well-kept lawns, park-like groves and pretentious country villas where he had once trailed Nance Jane through the "dark woods," and his father told him the names and circumstance of the owners as they drove up the pike. There was Rockwood, the summer home of the Stanleys, and The Dell, owned, and inhabited at intervals, by Mr. Young-Dickson, of the South Tredegar potteries.
"One week from the day after the day after to-morrow and it will be the longest week-and-two-days of my life, dearest your grandfather will take you to church, and I shall bring you away. Won't that be enough?" She took him quite seriously. "I shall never be a Felicita Young-Dickson, and drag you," she promised. "But, O Tom! I wish " "I know," he said gently.
"You've hurt me, more than once," he retorted, raising his voice more than he meant to; and she faced about quickly, holding up a warning finger. "Mr. Henniker and Mr. Young-Dickson are in the library with grandpa. They will hear you." "I don't care.
There were regrets apparently hearty; but in recasting the incident later, Tom remembered that it was the husband who did the talking, and that Mrs. Young-Dickson stood in the shadow of the gate tree, frigidly silent and with her face averted. "Once more, old boy, and then we'll quit," he said to Saladin at the remounting, and the final rein-drawing was at the stone-pillared gates of Rook Hill.
There was no fire in the church heater; and the few worshipers the Vancourt Henniker girls, the two Misses Harrison, John Young-Dickson, of The Dell, dragged out at the chilly hour by his new wife, and Mrs. Schuyler Farnsworth and her daughter, all of the country-house colony beyond the creek sat or knelt, and shivered through the service in decorous discomfort.
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