She looked the query that there was no need for lips to speak.
He shook his head.
"It is impossible," he declared. "Quite impossible. She was there."
"We must dissuade Kathryn from going, then," said Elinor.
He smiled, grimly, sadly.
"It will not be hard, I fear. Muriel was there, too."
And that was why Kathryn Schuyler did not go, then, to John Schuyler.
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