“Ah, I know when I’ve had enough,” he replied, shaking his head.
“No. You haven’t had enough. You’ll have to go back, to please me.”
He turned to her again and looked into her face. Then he took her in his arms and drew her close to him.
XXVI
The next day Douglas Briggs received a large number of telegrams; but only one contained a message that interested him: “Coming down with wife and two girls to get you to take that law case.” He passed the yellow slip to his wife. “Well, that looks promising, doesn’t it?” he said.
The following morning the family arrived. “It seems awful, coming away without Carrie Cora,” said Mrs. Burrell. “I declare I didn’t hardly have the courage to set out. I said to Father—” Here the old lady glanced quickly at her daughter and then at her husband and Douglas Briggs. She hesitated. Then she ran over to where Helen was sitting and whispered in her ear.
“Oh!” Helen exclaimed, laughing and flushing. “Isn’t that splendid?”
“Well, we’re all feelin’ kind of happy,” said Burrell, and the girls turned quickly to the window, while their mother held a whispered conversation with her hostess. Finally, she said aloud: “An’ now I want to have a good talk with you alone. I don’t want pa or the girls or even you, Mr. Briggs, to hear one word.”
“All right,” said Briggs, cheerfully, and he pretended to dash for the door.