The moment had passed, and she held out her hand with a smile. "I shall come to stay with Patty while you are at the meeting to-night," she said; and then, as she turned away to the car, he walked beside her in silence.
A little later, when she looked back from the gate, she saw him standing in the bright grass with the sunrise above his head.
CHAPTER XXIV
THE VICTORY OF GIDEON VETCH
That evening, when Corinna got out of her car before the Governor's house, Stephen Culpeper opened the door, and came down the steps.
"I waited for you," he said; and then as the car moved away, he took her hand and turned back to the porch.
"I couldn't come before," explained Corinna. "I had a headache all day, and it kept me in bed. Have you seen Patty?"
"I have seen her, but that is all. I can do nothing with her."
"But she cares for you."