Nancy Ellen, with a twitching face, looked at Kate.
"If Robert has to wait months, there in Hartley, handsome as he is, and he has to be nice to everybody to get practice, and you know how those Hartley girls are—"
"Yes, Nancy Ellen, I know," said Kate. "I'll see what I can do. Is it understood that if I give up the school and come back and take ours, Father will let me come home?"
"Yes, oh, yes!" cried Nancy Ellen.
"Well, nothing goes on guess-work. I'll hear him say it, myself," said Kate.
She climbed from the buggy. Nancy Ellen caught her arm.
"Don't go in there! Don't you go there," she cried. "He'll throw the first thing he can pick up at you. Mother says he hasn't been asleep all night."
"Pooh!" said Kate. "How childish! I want to hear him say that, and he'll scarcely kill me."
She walked swiftly to the side door.
"Father," she said, "Nancy Ellen is afraid she will lose Robert Gray if she has to put off her marriage for months—"