Linda obediently, though reluctantly, remained; but Katie's impulse was too strong for her.

She gave one imploring look at her mother, a look which Mrs.Woodward well understood, and then taking silence for consent, crept into the dining-room.
'Harry,' said Mrs.Woodward, as soon as the dining-room door was closed, 'Charley has been arrested;' and then she told him how Mrs.Richards had been at the Cottage, and what was the nature of the tidings she had brought.
Norman was not much surprised, nor did he feign to be so.

He took the news so coolly that Katie almost hated him.

'Did she say who had arrested him, or what was the amount ?' he asked.
Mrs.Woodward replied that she knew no more than what she had already told.

Katie stood in the shade with her eyes fixed upon her cousin, but as yet she said nothing.