"Can't see him!"
"No—not to-day."
"Why?"
Redbud wiped her eyes.
"Because—because—oh! I can't tell you, Fanny!—I can't—it's wrong in cousin Lavinia!—I know it is!—I never meant—oh! I am so unhappy!"
And Redbud ended by bursting into a flood of tears, which caused the impulsive and sympathetic Fanny, whose lips had for some moments been twitching nervously, to do the same.
"Don't cry, Fanny—please don't cry!" said Redbud.
"I'm not crying!" said Miss Fanny, shedding floods of tears—"I'm not sorry—I'm mad with Miss Lavinia for making you cry; I hate her!"
"Oh!" sobbed Redbud, "that is very wrong."
"I don't care."