"May I come in? I want to tell you——"
"No. You will say nothing that I should wish to hear."
"Will you allow me to see the telegram which I fear annoys you?"
"The ashes only are at your service—all that remains of it."
"Tell me, at least, why you are going, and where?"
"First to Washington. Elsewhere as circumstances may direct."
"Please let me go with you——"
"Most certainly you stay where you are."
"Father—my father!" She advanced toward him, but recalling the shudder with which he had shaken her arms from his shoulders, she stepped back to the threshold.
"Oh, father, you are cruel! You know you are breaking my heart!"