“Yes,” he replied. “We talked on the tabooed subject.”
“Tabooed with whom? You?” she asked disappointedly.
“No, with you I understand.”
Color flew into Eloise's face. “Who told you that? Mother of course.”
Bonnell nodded, giving a fleeting glance toward the child, who was again busy at her excavation.
“Are congratulations in order, Eloise?” he asked quietly.
“Yes, congratulations.” Her eyes grew full of light. “For I have come to see the truth. That child has shown me.”
The young man's lips remained apart for a second in his surprise at this declaration, after Mrs. Evringham's detailed representations.
“Then I may tell you how my mother was healed,” he said at last.
“Oh, was it really so?”