Then he followed her into the room.
'Good-bye,' he said to her suddenly; 'I shall start by the early train to-morrow, and shall not see you.' She pressed his hand, but he in nowise returned the pressure.

'Good-bye, Linda; good-bye, Katie; good night, Captain Cuttwater.' And so he went his way, as Adam did when he was driven out of Paradise.
Early on the following morning, the cook, while engaged in her most matutinal duties, was disturbed by a ring at the front door.
She, and she only of the household, was up, and as she had not completed her toilet with much minuteness, she was rather embarrassed when, on opening the door, she saw Mr.Charles Tudor.
'I beg your pardon, cook, for troubling you so early; but I have left something in the drawing-room.

I can find it myself;' and, so saying, he hurried into the room, so as to prevent the servant from following him.
Katie had a well-worn, well-known little workbox, which, in years now long past; had been given to her either by Alaric or Harry.
Doubtless she had now work-boxes grander both in appearance and size; but, nevertheless, whether from habit or from choice, her custom was, in her daily needlework, to use this old friend.
Often and often had Charley played with it many wicked pranks.
Once, while Katie had as yet no pretension to be grown up, he had put a snail into it, and had incurred her severe displeasure.

He had stuffed it full of acorns, and been rewarded by being pelted with them round the lawn; and had filled it with nuts, for which he had not found it so difficult to obtain pardon.

He knew every hole and corner in it! he was intimate with all her little feminine nicknacks--her silver thimble, her scissors, her bit of wax, and the yard-measure, which twisted itself in and out of an ivory cottage--he knew them all, as well as though they were his own; and he knew also where the workbox stood.
He closed the door behind him, and then, with his quickest motion, raised the lid and put within the box, just under the bit of work on which she was employed, a light small paper parcel.