Dorcas rapped.
Cap sobbed in response.
"Are you coming to luncheon, Miss Day?" inquired the woman.
"Ee—hee! Ee—hee! Ee—hee! I do not want to eat," sobbed Cap, in a low and smothered voice. Any one would have thought she was drowned in tears.
"Very well; just as you like," said the woman harshly, as she went away.
"Well, I declare," laughed Cap, "I did that quite as well as an actress could! But now what am I to do? How long can I keep this up? Heigh-ho 'let the world slide!' I'll not reveal myself until I'm driven to it, for when I do——! Cap, child, you'll get chawed right up!"
A little later in the day Dorcas Knight came again and rapped at the door.
"Ee—hee! Eeh—hee! Ee—hee!" sobbed Cap.
"Miss Day, your cousin, Craven Le Noir, wishes to speak with you alone."
"Ee—hee! Ee—hee! Ee—hee! I cannot see him!" sobbed Cap, in a low and suffocating voice.