Still Eleanor said nothing.
"Do not make it harder for us than you must, my dear," said Dr. Green at last. "There have been some matters I didn't give heed to because I wanted you to come to something. I didn't know you had a question in your mind. I am more ambitious for you than I was for myself. An early and unconsidered marriage like your mother's and mine—"
Now Eleanor lifted her head.
"Oh! oh! oh!" she cried as Mrs. Lister had cried.
"What is it?" asked Dr. Green. "Let us be entirely frank with one another."
"I did not understand that you had married my mother!" cried Eleanor. "Oh, I think you have been wrong and foolish and wicked, not so much to me as to one another!"
At midnight, when Dr. Green went out the little gate, he saw a dark figure in the shadow. It did not frighten or surprise him.
"Well, Richard?"
"I'm not going in. I wanted just a glimpse of her, that was all. I can't stand seeing her and talking to her and then having to come away."