She, dear woman! was all admiration and sympathy, though Philip’s outlined plot was not very clear to her.
Of course, it would be a fine book—quite Philip’s best!
CHAPTER XLI
A TESTIMONIAL TO MISS LINKIN
Mrs. Webster and Miss Linkin had been much upset by Dan’s going to the White House. Of course, it could have but one meaning. That “Canadian minx” had laid snares for him. They would certainly lose their Dan. Equally, of course, the marriage would be most unhappy.
“Why?” Isabel had asked when Aunt Lizzie had ventilated this opinion.
“Can the leopard mate with the lamb?” Miss Linkin had solemnly demanded, and Isabel had burst forth into amused and aggravating laughter.
“I don’t see the connection,” she had said.
But when Dan returned from his visit, he looked so utterly dejected, that his mother and aunt took heart at once. It was only Isabel who looked troubled and concerned.
As soon as an oppressive meal was ended, Isabel followed her brother to his studio.
“What is it, Dan?” she asked anxiously, when Dan had lit the gas fire, and drawn up two wicker chairs.