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Peggy grew so tired of the name of Darcy that she retired to her room at eight o'clock, and was busy at work over the September batch of cards, when a knock came to the door, and she had to cover them over with the blotting-paper to admit Mellicent in her dressing-gown, with her hair arranged for the night in an extraordinary number of little plaited pigtails.
She said she wa'n't goin' where she had to wear great coarse shoes an' horrid middy-blouses all day, an' build fires an' walk miles an' eat bugs an' grasshoppers." "Is Miss Mellicent going to do all that?" smiled Mr. Smith. "Bess says she is I mean, ELIZABETH. Did you know? We have to call her that now, when we don't forget it. I forget it, mostly. Have you seen her since she came back?" "No."
Her state of illusion was such that, if any one had dared to hint that the professor might possibly mingle some trifling failing with his many virtues, she would have laughed the idea to scorn, and her companions realised as much, and made no further efforts to convince her. "It's no use talking!" Mellicent cried in scorn.
Smith had never seen her without an apron before. Even on the street she wore a black silk one. He complimented her gallantly on her fine appearance. But Mrs. Jane did not smile. She frowned. "Yes, I know. Thank you, of course," she answered worriedly. "But it cost an awful lot this dress did; but Frank and Mellicent would have it. That child! have you seen her to-night?" "Miss Mellicent?
"Why er you must have seen his pictures in the papers," stammered the lawyer. "Yes, what was he like? Do tell us," urged Mr. Smith with a bland smile, as he seated himself. "Why er " The lawyer came to a still more unhappy pause. "Of course, we've seen his pictures," broke in Mellicent, "but those don't tell us anything.
The council met this by a question: 'Is the information, in any particular, false? Neither of us could deny that it was, in every particular, true. Hearing this, the council decided that there was no need, on our own showing, to confront us with the informer. From that day to this, I have never known who the spy was. Neither Mellicent nor I had an enemy in the Community.
He turned about, and went back to his hotel. Reaching his room, he opened the despatch box in which he kept his correspondence, and picked out the long letter containing the description by Amelius of his introduction to the ladies of the Farnaby family. "Ah, poor Amelius! He had better have gone back to Miss Mellicent, and put up with the little drawback of her age.
When Rosalind was present Esther hung on one arm and Mellicent on the other, without so much as a glance over the shoulder to see if Peggy were following. Instead of a constant "Peggy, what would you like?" "What does Peggy say?" her opinion was never even asked, while Rosalind's lightest word was treated as law.
A shriek of dismay sounded from within, as Mellicent dropped a work-basket on the floor and buried her face in her hands, under the conviction that the house was besieged by wild Indians, and the advance party close upon her.
"He's a young man whom Mellicent met this summer. He plays the violin, and Mellicent played his accompaniments in a church entertainment. That's where she met him first. He's the son of a minister near their camp, where the girls went to church. He's a fine fellow, I guess. He's hard hit that's sure. He came to Hillerton at once, and has gone to work in Hammond's real estate office.
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