Couldn't come up the next night either.

Two long days--two long evenings without seeing him.

Well--if she went away she'd have to get used to that.
But she had so many things to explain, so much to say to make it right with him; she knew well what a blow it was.

Now it was all over town--and she had had no chance to defend her position.
The neighbors called.

Tall bony Mrs.Delafield who lived nearest to them and had known Diantha for some years, felt it her duty to make a special appeal--or attack rather; and brought with her stout Mrs.Schlosster, whose ancestors and traditions were evidently of German extraction.
Diantha retired to her room when she saw these two bearing down upon the house; but her mother called her to make a pitcher of lemonade for them--and having entered there was no escape.