“So Sue said. I have not seen him. He knows that I have called, that is enough; I do not want to see him, I know that my face would distress him.”
“Poor fellow,” said Dine, compassionately, “how he used to talk! The stories that he has told in this room. Oh, Tessa, I can’t be thankful enough for every thing! To think that John should get such a good position in the Dunellen school! How things work around; he would not have had it but for Mr. Lewis Gesner! John and I are going there to spend the evening next week; Miss Gesner asked him to bring me. And oh, Tessa, do you think that Gus takes it much to heart?”
“If I did not know I should not think that he had any thing to take to heart!”
“I suppose his heart bleeds in secret,” said Dinah pensively. “Well, it isn’t my fault. You don’t blame me.”
“I never blame any one.”
“Father and mother are very polite to John.”
“They are never rude to any one.”
“Say, Tessa, are you glad about me, or sorry?”
“Am I not always glad about you?”
“Well, about John?”