“I’ll see to that,” returned Hugh. “If Aunt Susanna doesn’t return with us, she has two rooms down there, and Millicent will spend the night with her; and I’ll wire you. We’ll motor back the next morning.”
“You wish to do it, Milly?” asked Colonel Duane.
“It seems as if I should fly out of my skin if I couldn’t.”
“If we come back on the train with Aunt Susanna, it will be late, and Millicent will spend the night at our house.”
“No!” exclaimed the old man. “Bring her home, whatever hour it is.”
CHAPTER XXV
JOURNEY’S END
Miss Frink was sitting on the porch of the Sea View Hotel, rocking as all good Americans do, and thinking, as usual, of Hugh.
The expanse of ocean lay before her, and, as she watched the sailboats careening, she wondered if her nephew cared for sailing and if he was a good swimmer. She thought of the desirable girls in Farrandale. Some of them had had European educations. She hoped Hugh would accept the Tarrant invitation. As Miss Frink passed in review the young people she had seen grow up without noticing them, Inez Tarrant stood out in her mind as the most attractive. She shook her head as a memory of Hugh’s father struck athwart her thought.