A few yards away Adelaide, head bent and blue sunshade slowly turning as it rested on her shoulder, was strolling round the great flower-rimmed, lily-strewn outer basin of Mrs.
Dorsey's famed fountain, the school of crimson fish, like a streak of fire in the water, following her.

When she saw him coming toward them in traveling suit, instead of the white serge he always wore on such days as was that, she knew he was going away--a fortunate forewarning, for she thus had time to force a less telltale expression before he announced the reason for his call.

"But," he added, "I'll be back in a few days--a very few." "Oh!" was all Del said; but her tone of relief, her sudden brightening, were more significant than any words could have been.
Henrietta now joined them.

"You take the afternoon express ?" said she.
Ross could not conceal how severe a test of his civility this interruption was.

"Yes," said he.