“You are? Well then, we shall be tempted to follow. Is it a possible place outside the cottages?”
“Quite so, Brute says. Getting more so every year, because there’s a river flowing into the sea that gives the variety of canoeing. He says the Fairport Inn is getting to be quite dressy.”
“Why shouldn’t we all try it, then?” asked Mrs. Nixon.
“All?”
“Yes, all. It would be the best of ways for us to test Miss Maynard’s suitability. I shall not ask her to live with us without your consent, Robert,” finished Mrs. Nixon solemnly. “The home-circle is sacred.”
CHAPTER XV
AN EXODUS
Whatever interview Miss Maynard and Bruce may have had in the Lookout of the inn, it did not appear to have changed the young man’s mood when later he sought his stepmother.