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"Not half so glad as I am to see you," said Ronald, holding her hand in his, his face beaming with delight. "It seems such an age since you left!" "It is only two months, though," said Joe, with a faint smile. "I ought to apologize, but I suppose you have introduced yourself to Aunt Zoe." She could not call her Aunt Zoruiah, even for the sake of frightening Ronald.
Dear Aunt Zoruiah was so horrid about such things that it was impossible to talk to her! "Do you know how to skate?" Sybil Brandon asked of Joe as the two young girls, clad in heavy furs, walked down the sunny side of Beacon Street two days later. They were going from Miss Schenectady's to a "lunch party" one of those social institutions of Boston which had most surprised Joe on her first arrival.
"It is as well that you have come, because I have something to say to you, and I should have had to write it. Let us go out. Would you like to go for a walk?" Ronald was delighted to do anything that would give him a chance of escaping from Aunt Zoruiah and being alone with Joe. "I think you had best be back to lunch," remarked Miss Schenectady as they left the room.
Josephine looked at her aunt and laughed a little; it seemed to her a very self-evident fact, since John had just gone. "Exactly," said she. "Won't you call me Joe, aunt Zoruiah? They all do at home even Ronald." "Joe? Boy's name. Well, if you insist upon it. As I was saying, you have seen John Harrington, now." "Exactly," repeated Joe. "But I mean, how does he strike you?"
There was a moisture in her beautiful brown eyes that told of great excitement. She was very pale too, and looked tired. "Yes, my dear," said Aunt Zoruiah. "But we had better go home right away, Joe darling. You are so pale, I suppose you must be a good deal used up." "Allow me to see you to your carriage," said Pocock Vancouver in dulcet tones, coming up to the two ladies as they rose.
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