"I do."
"How is she carrying it on?"
"The next day after the party, the next morning,—that's day before yesterday,—I was down early, hunting for my carnelian pin; I'd dropped it somewhere, and I thought it might be in the reception-room, as I missed it soon after I had left the room to go upstairs the night before. I found it at last under a chair by the window. It was a little bent, and I stood at the window trying to straighten it, when I saw three or four of the Institute boys coming along on their way to school. One of them was Raymond Armitage; and as he passed by, I heard him say to the others,—
"'I have a note from my sister that I've got to leave here. Walk on slowly, and I'll catch up with you.'
"Ann was in the hall dusting, and so his ring was answered immediately; and as the reception-room door was ajar, I heard him say to her,—
"'Will you give this note to Miss Dorothea Dering?'
"Then I knew that he dropped something, some piece of money, into the girl's hand, for I could hear her say,—
"'Oh, thank you, sir, I'll go right up with it now,' which she did the instant she had closed the door."
"Well, if I ever!"
"Wait a minute; this isn't all. Just after luncheon that very day, mamma called and took me down town to be measured for my new jacket. After that was over, I sat waiting in the carriage, while mamma went into a shop to give an order. Michael drew up just beyond to make room for another carriage, and that brought us right in front of Huyler's; and there, through the clear glass of the door, I saw Dorothea Dering and Raymond Armitage laughing and talking together at the ice-cream soda counter."