Capitola threw herself into her chair to spend the slow hours until the boy's return as well as her fierce impatience and forced inaction would permit.
At tea time she was summoned; but excused herself from going below upon the plea of indisposition.
"Which is perfectly true," she said to herself, "since I am utterly indisposed to go. And besides, I have sworn never again to sit at the same table with my cousins, until for the wrongs done me I have received ample satisfaction."
CHAPTER XVII.
CAPITOLA CAPS THE CLIMAX.
Oh! when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd;
She was a vixen when she went to school;
And though she is but little she is fierce.
—Shakespeare.