Now, however, there was Philip to dress for, and she did really try. She went to Millie’s dressmaker with Millie as her guide, but unfortunately Mrs. Trenchard, who had as little idea about dress as Katherine, insisted on coming too, and confused everyone by her introduction of personal motives and religious dogmas into something that should have been simply a matter of ribbons and bows. Katherine, indeed, was too happy to care. Philip loved her in any old thing, the truth being that when he went about with her, he saw very little except his own happiness....
It is certainly a fact that during these weeks neither of them saw the family at all.
Rachel Seddon was the first person of the outside world to whom Katherine told the news.
“So that was the matter with you that day when you came to see me!” she cried.
“What day?” said Katherine.
“You’d been frightened in the Park, thought someone was going to drop a bag over your head, and ran in here for safety.”
“I shall always run in here for safety,” said Katherine gravely. Rachel came, in Katherine’s heart, in the place next to Mrs. Trenchard and Philip. Katherine had always told Rachel everything until that day of which Rachel had just spoken. There had been reticence then, there would be reticences always now.
“You will bring him very quickly to see me?” said Rachel.
“I will bring him at once,” answered Katherine.