She took the letter and read it hastily.
"It is from Mrs. Pennybacker," she said, reading aloud with an awed look on her face,
"'Rosalie is worse. I think this is the end. She wants to see you and Mr. De Jarnette together and will not be denied. Come at once.'"
CHAPTER XLII
THE CONFESSIONAL
"Will you go with Mr. Harcourt and myself?" she asked. "There will be plenty of room, I think."
"No. I will go by train and meet you there."
When he reached the house on Massachusetts Avenue she had not yet come. Mrs. Pennybacker took him into the parlor.
"I am glad to have the opportunity to tell you something of the girl's history before Margaret comes," she said. "The poor child has something on her mind that she feels she must tell you.... No, I don't know what it is."