“And there’s the last of it,” added Miss Barfoot. “Let us kiss and be friends.”
CHAPTER XIV
MOTIVES MEETING
When Barfoot made his next evening call Rhoda did not appear. He sat for some time in pleasant talk with his cousin, no reference whatever being made to Miss Nunn; then at length, beginning to fear that he would not see her, he inquired after her health. Miss Nunn was very well, answered the hostess, smiling.
“Not at home this evening?”
“Busy with some kind of study, I think.”
Plainly, the difference between these women had come to a happy end, as Barfoot foresaw that it would. He thought it better to make no mention of his meeting with Rhoda in the gardens.
“That was a very unpleasant affair that I saw your name connected with last week,” he said presently.
“It made me very miserable—ill indeed for a day or two.”
“That was why you couldn’t see me?”