Then tell him to say there is a lady here from New York to see him, and it is very important." Flo Hutter clapped her hands and laughed with glee.

Her gladness gave Carley a little twinge of conscience.

Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.
Carley was conducted up a broad stairway and along a boarded hallway to a room that opened out on the porch.

A steady low murmur of falling water assailed her ears.

Through the open door she saw across the porch to a white tumbling lacy veil of water falling, leaping, changing, so close that it seemed to touch the heavy pole railing of the porch.
This room resembled a tent.