“Well, it wasn’t decisive—but she admitted that it made her very happy.”
“And you haven’t seen her since?”
“No—or yes! I did. I met her just for a moment yesterday forenoon, as I was starting out from the house after hearing—the news. We only exchanged a word or two, though.”
“Did she seem angry with you then?”
“Not at all!”
“Well, what can have happened since? Try and think! She has reasons, she says, which she thinks you will understand. When a woman says she has ‘reasons’ she means that some mischief-maker has told her something disagreeable. Now——”
“Oh, my God! I see it now!” Seth stopped short in the road, and clenched his fists.
“Well, what is it?”
“She went into the house, and saw Isabel!” Seth continued, as if talking to himself.
“What has that got to do with it?”