She walked away.
“Mr. Willing,” said Dick, “it may appear wrong, but somehow or other I don’t exactly trust that woman.”
“Pooh!” replied Mr. Willing. “What does a youngster like you know?”
“Perhaps I am wrong,” replied Dick, “but something tells me she is not to be trusted. She is up to some mischief.”
“Why, Dick!” exclaimed Shirley. “Don’t you want us to go?”
“To tell the truth I don’t,” was the reply.
“Young man,” said Colonel Ashton, “you will learn, as you grow older, not to jump to such rash conclusions. Mrs. Sebastian is a gentlewoman.”
“Right you are, Ashton,” declared Mr. Willing. “We’re old enough to know, eh?”
The two men smiled at each other and walked away, leaving the young people together.
Mrs. Sebastian returned a few moments later.