"Absolutely. I don't think your precious young man is hurt much, only shaken up a bit."
The two girls were silent for a few moments. Carolyn had turned, and they were both walking back over the road, that they might the sooner meet the cart that was bringing Lawrence to Savin Hill.
"Providence made a great mistake in sending me to find your lover," at last said Prudence. "If Providence had wished to do the perfectly correct thing, you would have been on the Pine-wood road this morning. But then, when does Providence act quite up to the mark? I am tired of Providence myself."
Though Carolyn gazed at the speaker, she did not apparently hear her. Her eyes wandered off down the road.
After another short silence, Prudence spoke again.
"I hope there are people coming to the house this summer. I should go raving mad if I had only you and Rodney, and you two in love with each other."
The girl shrugged her shoulders, and shuddered. As there was no answer, she repeated:
"I suppose you are in love with each other, aren't you?"
"I suppose so," mechanically.
"That's what I thought. Are there people coming?"