"Well, Marty," he said; and was surprised to read in her face that the case was not so hopeful as he had imagined.
"I am sorry for your labor," she said.

"It is all lost.

He says the tree seems taller than ever." Winterborne looked round at it.

Taller the tree certainly did seem, the gauntness of its now naked stem being more marked than before.
"It quite terrified him when he first saw what you had done to it this morning," she added.

"He declares it will come down upon us and cleave us, like 'the sword of the Lord and of Gideon.'" "Well; can I do anything else ?" asked he.
"The doctor says the tree ought to be cut down." "Oh--you've had the doctor ?" "I didn't send for him Mrs.Charmond, before she left, heard that father was ill, and told him to attend him at her expense." "That was very good of her.