24/38 So she quietly told her that she was afraid, after all, the party wouldn't suit her. And then she turned the pony's head, and drove her straight home again!" "Oh!" cried Doris, her cheeks red, her eyes aflame. "All the same, there are fine things in Rachel. And in one point she's the most vulnerable of women!" "Her son ?" Doris ventured. He's just nothing!--just incurably empty and idle. |