And she longed to get away from under the searching black eyes of her mother and utter the long-pent cry of anguish.

Another day of such unuttered pain would drive her clean mad.
That evening Jonas came over and sought an interview with Cynthy Ann.

He had not been to see her since his unsuccessful courtship.

Julia felt that he was the bearer of a message.

But Mrs.Anderson was in one of her most exacting humors, and it gave her not a little pleasure to keep Cynthy Ann, on one pretext and another, all the evening at her side.