Will you go now and wait there ?" She nodded towards the seat where they had sat together earlier.
* * * * * But it was nearly an hour before she came out again, and a neat maid, in apron and cap, had come discreetly out with the tea-things, set them down and retired.
Jack had been thinking of a hundred things, which all centered round one--Frank.

He had had a real shock this morning.

It had been intolerable to think of Frank in prison, for even Jack could guess something of what that meant to him; and the tone of the letter had been so utterly unlike what he had been accustomed to from his friend.

He would have expected a bubbling torrent of remarks--wise and foolish--full of personal descriptions and unkind little sketches.

And, indeed, there had come this sober narration of facts and requests....
But in all this there was one deep relief--that it should be a girl like Jenny who was the heart of the situation.