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Updated: June 25, 2025
About two hours after Sir Percival rose from the luncheon-table to receive his solicitor, Mr. Merriman, in the library, I left my room alone to take a walk in the plantations. Just as I was at the end of the landing the library door opened and the two gentlemen came out. Thinking it best not to disturb them by appearing on the stairs, I resolved to defer going down till they had crossed the hall.
They don't even come to me for advice." "You wouldn't give it to them if they did," said Brett. "No," said Mr. Merriman, "I couldn't. But I should like to, and a piece of my mind to boot. Now, sir, you have suggested something for me to do. Will you go further and tell me how I am to do it?"
There were clumps of trees farther inland, but none along the shore, and the nearest building, a large block like a factory with beside it a cottage, was at least three hundred yards away in the Hull direction. "Seems an element of design in that, eh, Hilliard?" Merriman remarked as they turned to continue their walk.
"I think that ... would it be all right if I wore that pretty white woollen one?" "Why, yes, if you like, but it is very plain and simple." "And so am I," laughed Rose a bit unsteadily. "I want them to see me just as I am, and ... Oh, how I hope that they will like me!" "Never fear. They will," answered Miss Merriman, giving her a reassuring kiss.
There was that one of brandy smuggling that I mentioned before. I suggest it because I can suggest nothing else, but I admit I saw no evidence of it." Merriman was silent for several minutes as the boat slid over the smooth water. Then with a change of manner he turned once more to his friend. "I suppose we couldn't leave it alone? Is it our business after all?"
Merriman, who was prettier and more vivacious than Mrs. Highcamp, she waited with easy indifference for an opportunity to reclaim his attention. There was the occasional sound of music, of mandolins, sufficiently removed to be an agreeable accompaniment rather than an interruption to the conversation.
"Grandpap would not have been out of place there, or in a king's palace. He was a king, Miss Merriman." "Yes, dear, he truly was," the other responded seriously. There was a pause. "Isn't Dr. Bentley nice," said Smiles, softly. "He must be splendid, for Dr. Donald likes him a lot." "He likes you a lot, too! My, aren't we vain?" smiled Gertrude. "Oh, I didn't think how that was going to sound!"
I am not going back to Sunnyside, for they would not accept me; but, at the same time, I do not feel at all a disgraced girl; and I should like the Merrimans to be friends with me, and I should still like sometimes to see Jane and Laura Everett, and some of the other girls not Lucy Merriman, for she is not in the least to my taste; but even she does not greatly matter now that I am no longer living in the house with her.
Merriman coming in response to my message, tell him the plight we are in and ask him to hasten to our help." "I do not like to show the white feather, sir," said the Babu. "Not at all, Babu, we must have a trustworthy messenger: you are the man. Now get away as fast as you can." The Babu departed on his errand with the speed of gladness and relief.
Let it be said that Miss Merriman had caught the note struck by Rose that morning, and had arrayed her to appear as young and simple as possible. "A child? Of course she is," echoed Mr. MacDonald in a hearty voice. "My dear, Donald has told us so much about you that I feel almost as though I had known you all your life.
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