19/29 "Oh, if you did, darling, you must tell me where you live, what your father's name is, and I will take you home. If it is far, I will get a carriage, and you shall ride home. Tell me, dear." There was an utmost sweetness of maternal persuasion in Cynthia Lennox's voice; Ellen was swayed by it as a child might have been swayed by the magic pipe of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. She half yielded to her leading motion, then she remembered. |