"Top Step, I know what this means to you, but—your mother.... Do you think you'd better?"
"I am going to Mexico," said Honor. "I am going to Jimsy."
"I'll find out about trains and reservations," said her stepfather.
CHAPTER X
For a few moments it moved and concerned Honor to see that she was the cause of the first serious quarrel between her mother and her stepfather. She was shocked to see her mother's wild weeping and Stephen Lorimer's grim jaw and to hear the words between them, but nothing could really count with her in those hours.
She took her mother in her arms and kissed her and spoke to her as she had to her little brothers in the years gone by, when they were hurt or sorry. "There, there, Muzzie dear! You can't help it. You must just stop caring so. It isn't your fault."
"People will think—people will say——" sobbed Mildred Lorimer.
"No one will blame you, dear. Every one knows what a trial I've always been to you."