To my mind it's rather a relief!" "I'm afraid of you," was her only comment, made with a sweet smile and in a soft voice.
"All right," he said, "let us leave it at that.

Anyhow, we shall be rid of one of them!" "I don't love niggers any more than you do," she replied, "and I suppose one mustn't be too particular where that sort of cleaning up is concerned." Then she changed in voice and manner, and asked genially: "And now tell me, am I forgiven ?" "You are, dear lady--if there is anything to forgive." As he spoke, seeing that she had moved to go, he came to the door with her, and in the most natural way accompanied her downstairs.

He passed through the hall with her and down the avenue.

As he went back to the house, she smiled to herself.
"Well, that is all right.

I don't think the morning has been altogether thrown away." And she walked slowly back to Diana's Grove.
Adam Salton followed the line of the Brow, and refreshed his memory as to the various localities.