Outwardly he only frowned.

And Edith had gone on to say, "I do hope that Deborah won't come up this summer.

She's been very good and kind, of course, and if she comes she'll be doing it entirely on my account.

But I don't want her here--I want her to marry, the sooner the better, and come to her senses--be happy, I mean.

And I wish you would tell her so." Within a few days after this Deborah wrote to her father that she was coming the next week.