Not heeding Nettie’s words Minnie said, “why did you come up here? Warren missed you and sent me to find you. Why, Nettie, where are you going? I see you have been packing your trunk.”
CHAPTER IV.
“I hope you are not going home?”
“Yes, cousin, I shall go tomorrow. I wish you would bear the intelligence to your father and mother and entreat them to let Cousin Warren take me to the village in time to take the coach for home tomorrow. I do not care to ask him, as he will question me. Mother will be looking for me in a day or so and I concluded to go tomorrow.”
She gave her hand to her cousin, saying: “We will go down to the hall now or the company may think it strange we are both gone.”
They went along the corridor as placidly as if nothing had transpired to mar the pleasure of the evening.
They came to where Warren stood toying with the tassel of the window curtain and looking out into the moonlight with deeply-troubled thoughts.
“Where have you been, you little rogue? we have been looking for you for some time.”
“She has been packing her trunk to go home tomorrow morning: I cannot get her to stay any longer,” said Minnie.