“I will not, Aunt Elfrida. I would not make her so unhappy,” replied the lover. “I will only tell her,” he added, “that you think we had better correspond in the way you suggested, and wait for my return from sea to settle matters; or shall I refer her to you?”
“Do both, Le. Tell her what you propose to tell, and send her to me.”
“I will not keep you any longer from your guests, Aunt Elfrida. I thank you very much for your kindness to me, and I shall be guided by your words,” said the young man, as he raised the hand of the lady to his lips, and then dropped it with a bow and left the room.
CHAPTER XLII
OTHER INTERVIEWS
He found Odalite waiting for him in the hall. She was dressed for a walk.
“Let us go over to Greenbushes this morning, Le. It is such a fine morning. We can walk through the woods, and rest on the bridge at Chincapin Creek, and then we shall not be too tired when we get to the house,” she said in so many words, but all the while she spoke her eyes asked, without words:
“What did mamma say?”
“Happy thought! We will go, dearest. I will be ready in a trice! And we can talk as we go along!” replied Le, with assumed gayety, as he pulled down his overcoat from its hook and began to put it on.