The young man touches his cap and says:
“Thank you.”
Mona tries to answer him but she cannot. He goes off, carrying his can, and with his guard behind him. Mona finds herself looking after him, first through the door and then through the dairy window.
All that day she goes about her work with a serious face and is cross with the farm hands when they do anything amiss. And at night, when supper is over, and her father calls down to her to come up and read his Bible, she calls back.
“Not to-night, dad—I’ve got a headache.”
Then she sits before the fire alone and does not go to bed until morning.
FOURTH CHAPTER
Another month has passed. Mona has been fighting a hard battle with herself. Some evil spirit seems to have found its way into her heart and she has had to struggle against it all day and every day.