Munro!"
As Ada, a slim, willowy creature, with the _surprised_ look in her
eyes that has become the fashion of late, came gliding up to me, I
thought that the reason for young Bunker's omission from the party was
possibly before me.
Bother on her matrimonial, or rather anti-matrimonial, devices! Her
maternal solicitude lest Ada should be charmed with the poor young
clerk on the passage over had cost me weeks of longer stay. For at
this stage a request for any further transfer would have been
ridiculous and wrong. As easy to settle it now as to arrange for any
one else; so the first of April found me still in London, but leaving
it on the morrow for home.
"Bessie is in Lenox, I think," Fanny Meyrick had said to me as I bade
her good-bye.
"What! You have heard from her?"
"No, but I heard incidentally from one of my Boston friends this
morning that he had seen her there, standing on the church steps."
I winced, and a deeper glow came into Fanny's cheek.
"You will give her my letter? I would have written to her also, but it
was indeed only this morning that I heard. You will give her that?"
"I have kept it for her," I said quietly; and the adieus were over.
CHAPTER X.
Lenox again, and bluebirds darting to and fro among the maples. I had
reached the hotel at midnight. Our train was late, detained on the
road, and though my thoughts drove instantly to the Sloman cottage, I
allowed the tardier coach-horses to set me down at the hotel.
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