"Is Dorothy with you?" asked Mrs. Evans anxiously.
"She isn't here with me, but she is at home," Edna made reply.
[185] "Oh, then, we must hurry along," said Mrs. Evans, and without waiting to hear more particulars she and her daughter Agnes hastened away.
Then Mrs. Conway sat down and gathered Edna to her. "It is so nice to have my baby again," she said. "I don't believe I can ever consent to let her stay so long away another time. Now tell me all about it. How did you happen to get here so early and why didn't I find you at Mr. Ramsey's office as I expected?"
"Did you expect to find us there?"
"Why, certainly, Mrs. Ramsey wrote that you would come back with her husband, and that you would arrive at about noon, so naturally I didn't expect Mr. Ramsey to bring you all the way out here, besides his clerks told me that he had not returned, but had telephoned from New York that he would arrive this evening. So of course I thought you would not get here till then."
"And were you disappointed?"
"Oh, I was indeed; but you haven't told me how you did get here."
"Ben brought us."
"Ben? Where is he?"