He would go at once, hoping to overtake them on the difficult ascent, and Miss Rexford, he said, must go home and send her father and brother to aid him in his search.
She never stopped in her steady walk.

"You know they are not at home." He was shocked to remember it.

"Never mind!" he cried, "I will go with your authority.

I will bring her back." Still she did not waver in her walk.

She spoke thickly out of her tears.
"You may go to find this woman who has worked for you so long; I will go for Winifred." "You must not come," he said almost harshly.