[Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Charles Major]@TWC D-Link bookDorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall CHAPTER XIII 37/45
"We heard him and we saw you." "Did you? Good.
I am glad of it," said Dorothy. "Yes, we saw and we heard all, and we think that your conduct was shameless," I responded severely. "Shameless ?" demanded Dorothy.
"Now pray tell me what I did or said that was shameless.". I was at a loss to define the wrong in her conduct, for it had been of an intangible quality which in itself was nothing, but notwithstanding meant a great deal. "You permitted him to hold your hand," I said, trying to fix on something real with which to accuse her. "I did nothing of the sort," said Dorothy, laughingly.
"He caught my hand several times, but I withdrew it from him" I knew she spoke the truth regarding her hand, so I tried again. "You--you hung your head and kept your eyes cast down, and you looked--" "Oh, I hung my head, I cast down my eyes, and I looked ?" she answered, laughing heartily.
"Pray let me ask you, Master Fault-finder, for what use else are heads and eyes made ?" I was not prepared to say that the uses to which Dorothy had put her head and eyes were not some of the purposes for which they were created.
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