She turned with her mouth open in astonishment, and her hand full of candle-ends. "Cassandra Morgeson, are you mad?"
"Good-by," Alice.
I only saw Mr. Somers at prayers during the following fortnight. But in that short time he made many acquaintances. Helen told me that he had decided to study law with Judge Ryder, and that he had asked her how long I expected to stay in Rosville. Nothing eccentric had been discovered in his behavior; but she was convinced that he would astonish us before long. The first Wednesday after our party, I was absent from the elocutionary exercise; but the second came round, and I took my place as usual beside Helen.
"This will be Mr. Somers's first and last appearance on our stage," she whispered; "some whim prompts him to come to-day."
He delighted Dr. Price by translating from the Agamemnon of Æschylus.
"Re-enter Clytemnestra."
"Men! Citizens! ye Elders of Argos present here."
"Who was Agamemnon?" I whispered.
"He gave Cassandra her last ride."
"Did he upset her?"