8/26 He too realized that this was no time to open wounds, certainly not in his uncle's heart; and yet he could wait no longer. "The servants would know if it had--they know everything--and Aunt Jemima would be the first to have told me. The house being lighted up is no evidence. They have been giving a series of entertainments this winter and there were more to come when I last saw Kate, which was one night at Richard Horn's. But let us close that chapter too, my boy. |