"Where are you going?"
"To Baltimore, then to Pittsburgh."
"I thought you were going to Pittsburgh, mother!"
His mother looked at him reproachfully. Did he not know that she never left him?
"No, darling," said Mary Alcestis. "My place is here."
CHAPTER XVI FURTHER EXPLANATIONS
For three days Richard roamed like a caged creature from room to room. An impulse to immediate rebellion soon spent itself. His intentions had not changed, his position was not to be receded from, but the necessity for a new step was not yet pressing. He would wait, he could afford to wait for three days, reckless and unconsidered and foolish as his promise had been. He did not remember that Eleanor might be unhappy.
In the meanwhile he would make his plans. He walked up and down or sat at his window chin on hand. When Mrs. Scott came within his line of vision he made a childish grimace in her direction. She came no nearer than the common walk which led from both houses to the college gate, being entirely satisfied with her recent visit to Mrs. Lister.