“We will go down with you, and I hope you will be neighborly while we are in the country.”
The bewildered look in his eyes deepened, and then a heartrending solution of her graciousness came to him. Fletcher and Carey were doubtless engaged, and this fact made Mrs. Winthrop feel secure in extending hospitality to him.
“Thank you, Mrs. Winthrop,” he said, a little bitterly. “You are very kind.”
“David,” she asked, giving him a searching look. “What is the matter? I thought you 228 would be pleased at the thought of our spending a week among you all.”
He made a quick, desperate decision.
“Mrs. Winthrop,” he asked earnestly, “may I speak to you quite openly and honestly?”
“David Dunne, you couldn’t speak any other way,” she asserted, with a gay little laugh.
CHAPTER VII
This information seemingly conveyed no startling intelligence.