"Ever, with love and kisses to you both,
EDWARD."
"Mother," she said afterwards, "let me suggest that you send up a carriage to-morrow evening, which Papa Judge may take as an invitation to come early on Saturday morning. If Mr. Ridgeley sees me, had he not better find me in my mother's and father's house?"
"If he sees you, Julia?"
"Of course if he wishes to, he will."
And she was not conversational, and wandered about, and if possible would have been a little pettish.
"Are you not glad, Julia, that he has acquitted himself so well? He seems to have carried the Court and jury and all by storm."
"Of course he did. Does that surprise you? But it is all so stupid, staying there to try that pokey old case."
"Julia, what under the sun is the matter?" looking at her in surprise.
The girl turned and knelt by her mother, and laid her face down in her lap, and burst into violent sobbings.