“Why not?” asked the nurse.
Suddenly Annie began to cry. The nurse pulled her in and shut the door of the house.
CHAPTER X
Rosamund did not know how long she sat in the garden after she had heard the footfall in the Dark Entry. Perhaps five minutes, perhaps many more had slipped by before she was aware of feeling cold. A chill had gone through her mind when she heard the footfall; now her body was chilled. She shivered and got up. She must go into the house.
It was now very dark. The path was a pale grayish blur at her feet. On her left the shrubs which concealed the house from her showed as a heavy morose blackness against the softer and more mysterious blackness of the night. The dampness which rose in the garden was like the dreary whispering of sad earth voices.
She shivered again.
Then she heard a faltering step on the path beyond the shrubs. It was certainly Dion’s step. At last they had come back!
With a movement of her shoulders she tried to throw off her depression, as if it were something heavy resting upon her, something which a physical effort could get rid of. Then she called out in a brisk and cheerful voice:
“Dion, I’m here. How late you are! What have you shot?”