"For reasons that I will explain soon. Till I do, you must trust me."
"I trust you utterly."
"Then please leave here for Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, so as to precede me by twelve hours. And on Friday morning, by ten o'clock, be at the place I have designated, and wait until I join you."
"And we will be married the same day?"
"We will be married at noon on the same day. Now do you understand?"
"My mind is in a delirium of joy, but I understand."
"Now, dearest, you must take me out to the carriage," she said, rising and drawing her shawl around her.
He gave her his arm and led her out to the carriage, which the frightened negro coachman had driven quite to the opposite side of the road from the terrible haunted house.
"Now go on to the Misses Cranes'," she said, after she had taken leave of her victim and settled herself in her seat.
It was nearly twelve o'clock when she entered her boarding-house; but she told her waiting landladies that she had spent the day and half the night with the sick child, and they were satisfied.