She read the policeman’s
rueful glance when she caught his refection in his
rearview mirror. In this way he was able to force back a ponderous bolt from
its socket; and to his unspeakable joy, found that the door instantly yielded. “And even then—”
The conversation hung for a thoughtful moment. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. My Dad doesn’t want it
necessarily, but he realizes that if he doesn’t give my
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Mom this one it’s divorce for sure. She had to think of something fast, or her
reaction would start to make believers out of everyone. “I cannot pretend that I am glad to see you, Lady Ferringhall,” he said quietly. We shall have—hardly any money. Then the storm broke.
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