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I will now tell what happened. It began the day Billy heard the station agent at Whitman read Aunt Elizabeth's telegram to Harry Goward. The telegram had a lot of silly letters and words in it, so Billy didn't know what it meant, and, of course, he didn't care. The careless child would have forgotten all about it if I hadn't happened to meet him at Lorraine's after he got back from Whitman.
Of course, the poor little soul has no danger to fear from me; it is lucky for her that her fiance fell in love with me; but it is the principle of the thing which worries me. Harry Goward must be as fickle as a honey-bee. There is no assurance whatever for Peggy that he will not fall headlong in love and headlong is just the word for it with any other woman after he has married her.
I have tried all my married life to agree with every member of the family in everything he, she, or it has said, but, now that this Goward business has come up, I can't do that, because every time anybody says "Booh" to anybody else in the family circle, regarding this duplex love-affair, a family council is immediately called and "Booh" is discussed, not only from every possible stand-point, but from several impossible ones as well.
"Do you think," demanded Harry Goward, outright, "that she will ever forgive me, REALLY forgive me?" "That is for you to find out," I answered, smiling comfortably; for I could not possibly have Harry think that any of us even an unpopular elder sister could be there to fling Peggy at the young man's head. "That is between you and Peggy."
It amazed me to see how Ada took Peggy's engagement, and when young Henry Goward came to visit, I made up my mind that he should not go away again without our finding out a little, at any rate, of what his surroundings had been, and what his own principles were.
Aunt Elizabeth came to me full of mystery soon after she came back, and told me that Harry Goward had become infatuated with her when she was off on one of her visits " I couldn't help exclaiming, "Well, of all things!" "That's not the queerest part," Ada went on. "She told me as confidently as could be that he is still in love with her." "Ada," said I, "Elizabeth Talbert must be daft!
It seems to me far the best and most dignified thing to just write to Mr. Goward himself and find out the truth." "I think so, too!" said I. "Oh, Madonna, you're a Jim Dandy!" "And so," she went on, "I want you to ask Charles Edward to write to-night. I'll leave the address with you. As Peggy's brother, it will be more suitable for him to attend to the matter." Charles Edward! I simply gasped.
She insinuated, in HER way, all kinds of dreadful things about Harry Goward and Aunt Elizabeth, and there was a scene at the breakfast-table and Peggy was taken so ill that they had to send for Dr. Denbigh. I don't know what will happen when Aunt Elizabeth comes home.
I heard her sending a crazy telegram to Harry Goward, and then I forgot all about it until I wanted to distract Alice's mind off some cookies that I'd accumulated at Lorraine's house. Alice is a pig. She never lets me stuff in peace. So I told her about the telegram I knew Alice would be perturbed with that.
"What's the matter?" Ada asked them. "Tell her," Peggy commanded. Billy didn't know what it all was about. "Why, I just said I wondered what Aunt Elizabeth was telegraphing Harry Goward about, and now she drags me in here and makes a fuss," he said, in an aggrieved tone.
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