144/178 What do you mean, Fulkerson ?" "He's just gone on up home, and he sent me round with his apologies. He'd 'a' come round himself if I'd said so, but I told him I could make it all right." Fulkerson looked so happy in having the whole affair put right, and the Marches knew him to be so kindly affected toward them, that they could not refuse for the moment to share his mood. They felt themselves slipping down from the moral height which they had gained, and March made a clutch to stay himself with the question, "And Lindau ?" "Well," said Fulkerson, "he's going to leave Lindau to me. You won't have anything to do with it. |