“But consider’it’s terrible frightening to propose right on end to a ghost’s daughter.”
CHAPTER XLIX
FLAGRANTE DELICTO
Noah and Rose reached the Cellars just as Pasco and his family were about to seat themselves to supper. Pepperill somewhat boisterously welcomed them, and insisted on their sharing the evening meal.
“You see,” said he, “it is dull here. Zerah ain’t much in the way of entertainment, and Kitty be just as heavy. Stupid place this, and stupid people; I shall get away as soon as possible.”
“Going to leave the Cellars, Mr. Pepperill?” asked Rose.
“I don’t find this place lively enough for me, now I’m a man of independent means. I want amusement, and can get none here; society, and here no one can talk of anything but bullocks.”
“I don’t know that,” said Noah; “there is the fire, everyone is talking of that.”
Rose cast a reproachful glance at her cousin. His remark made Pasco wince, and Zerah look down into her plate.
“You see,” pursued Pepperill, “having come in for a little property”’
“The insurance money?” asked the blundering Noah.