Coming to-morrow--two or three nights--discuss plans .-- ALICE.' Eleanor let her hand drop, and the two ladies looked at each other in dismay.
'But you told her you couldn't receive her here ?' 'Several times over.

Edward will be in despair.

How are we to have her here with Miss Foster?
Her behaviour the last two months has been too extraordinary.' Aunt Pattie fell back a languid little heap upon her pillows.

Eleanor looked almost equally disconcerted.
'Have you told Edward ?' 'No,' said Aunt Pattie miserably, raising a hand to her aching head, as though to excuse her lack of courage.
'Shall I tell him ?' 'It's too bad to put such things on you.' 'No, not at all.

But I won't tell him now.