"Come in, sir." And he ushered him in to Jael Dence.

She was in her bonnet, and just going out.

They shook hands, and she told him Miss Carden was out walking.
"Walking with her beau ?" said Henry, affecting a jaunty air, but sick within.
"That's more than I can say," replied Jael.
"You know nothing about it, of course," said Henry, roughly.
Jael looked surprised at the uncalled-for tone, and turned a mild glance of inquiry and reproach upon him.
The young man was ashamed of himself, and at that moment, too, he remembered he had already been rather ungrateful to her.

So, to make amends, he said, "Didn't I promise to take you to Cairnhope ?" "Ay," said Jael; and she beamed and blushed in a moment.
"Well, I must go there, Sunday at the latest.

So I will come for you, if you like.