Then, as if suddenly becoming clearer about her position: "Where is Mr.Waymark?
Why didn't he meet me as he promised ?" Abraham hesitated, but speedily made up his mind that it would be best to speak the truth.
"I know as little as you do.

He ought to have come to me yesterday, but he didn't, and I can't discover him.

I got Mr.Casti to meet you instead." The keenest trouble manifested itself on Ida's countenance.

She asked questions in rapid succession, and thus elicited an explanation of all the circumstances hitherto unknown to her.
"Have you been through the houses ?" she inquired, all her native energy restored by apprehension.

"Haven't you thought that he may have been robbed and--" She stopped, overcome by sudden weakness, and sank into the chair.
"Come, come, it isn't so bad as all that," said the old man, observing her closely.