“Maybe I am.”
“But you will, you know. Father said it,” added Kate.
“You needn’t keep saying it over to a fellow, to make it worse.”
“I won’t; but I thought you thought papa would let you have it yet.”
“No such thing. I know better! I wouldn’t if I were in his place. I’d just stick to what I said and I wouldn’t budge an inch,” said Frank.
Then Mrs. Hallock entered the room.
“Did you send him, mother?” questioned Kate, eagerly.
“Yes, and I sent the carriage, too.”
Both children asked what for. Kate with eager, glistening eyes, and Frank, because he didn’t know what else to say.
“I gave Richard orders to fetch him home.”