“I thought he had gone.”
“He has gone now.”
“I thought I saw some one just now, Mary. You go out and look all about the garden, and see if you can see any one.”
Mary obeyed, and returning said that she could see no one, and she guessed that her mistress was nervous.
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE OLD HOUSE AT ROXBURY.
“Well, upon my word I do think it’s perfectly awful. Jest look there! How that lookin’ glass come broke is more than I know,” and Mrs. Morris took off her spectacles and wiped away a few tears. “I’d a jest rather give five dollars than to have it done.”
“Oh, no, that would be foolish,” said Miss Elsworth, “for five dollars would buy a much nicer one.”
“But la me, it’s a bad sign, an awful bad sign.”