“Who is he?” asked Marion, half rising on her pillow.
Miss Allyn turned off the gas before she answered.
“His name is Reginald Brookes, and he is a medical student. He’s exactly the kind of a man you should marry.”
CHAPTER V.
MISS ALLYN’S SECRET.
Marion never quite knew what kept her silent after Miss Allyn had mentioned the name of Reginald Brookes, but she allowed her friend to leave the room without saying a word, although she had news that would have interested both of her companions greatly.
“I am surprised that she did not see him at the depot,” she thought, as she lay silently beside Dollie, “but I guess they left too quickly.”
For an hour after that Marion’s mind wandered restlessly. It had been an exciting day as well as a painful one. She rehearsed over and over the scene in the old kitchen—her parents’ grief when she first saw them and their rejoicing later.
The glimpse of the old home had stirred memories of her childhood, but it had also brought back all the old loathing for country life and made her wondrously contented with her present surroundings.
“Poor Sallie! How I pity her!” she exclaimed, then listened breathlessly to see if she had awakened Dollie.