"Better if you had written in your own name, and without her knowledge. No daughter of the house would ever have been put in such a position. So far as I can judge, Mary and Mr. Will Axworthy are quits. If he has had a good time in her society, she has had an equally good time in his, and he does not enjoy her letters so much as he did her propinquity."
"He's a cold-hearted, cowardly——"
"Tut! tut! my dear!"
By this time we were on the platform, and the engine was backing its one car down to receive me and the other unhappy toilers compelled to go away and leave that sapphire-blue lake behind.
"Don't you think, Isabel, that it's about time you quit trying to play Providence and gave God a chance?"
"Dave! you're blasphemous!"
"No, I'm not. I only wish to remark that in your schemes for the welfare of one particular person, you are apt to overlook the comfort and happiness of everyone else concerned. That's the worst of not being omniscient. You're only an amateur sort of a deity after all."
"Send that girl out here by the very next train." And I obeyed.
