"You will be glad to see your cousin?"
"Yes; I suppose so. Shall you?"
He turned partly around, so he could look at her; and this it was which brought the blood so quickly to her face, making her stammer as she replied:
"Of course I shall be glad. I like him very much; but—"
Here she stopped, for she did not know how to tell Hugh that she was not glad in the way which he supposed.
"But what?" he asked, "What were you going to say?" and in his eyes there was a look which drove Alice's courage away, and made her answer:
"It's queer the doctor did not tell him anything except that 'Lina was sick."
"There are a great many queer people in this world," Hugh replied, rather testily, while Alice mildly rejoined.
"The letter has been delayed, and he will be here day after to-morrow. Did you notice?"
"Yes; and as I am impatient to go for Adah, the sooner he comes the better, for the sooner it will leave me at liberty. Would it be very impolite for me to go at once, and leave you to entertain him?"