Rowena was about to inquire what he meant, but they were cut off, and she did not see or hear from him again.
Later she puzzled over his words, then strove to put them from her.
"My Highland life and Highland friends will be only a memory now," she assured herself. "That chapter is closed. I am in another atmosphere altogether."
And she sailed for India with a smiling face and an aching heart.
BOOK II
[CHAPTER I]
AT THE GREEN COTTAGE
"All are not taken! There are left behind
Living Beloved's tender looks to bring,
And make the daylight still a happy thing,
And tender voices to make soft the wind."
E. Browning.
"ROWENA, I hope you mean to be kind to him. Remember he has taken all the trouble to travel down from Yorkshire to see us."
"But we did not invite him."