"And, pray, what reason had you to suppose that we should not keep our word?" said the latter, as she appeared.
"We thought Harry would probably detain you," said Elinor.
"Not at all; we brought him along with us."
"That was a good arrangement we had not thought of," observed
Miss Agnes.
Harry entered the room. He was not entirely free from embarrassment at first; but when Mr. Wyllys met him with something of the cordial manner of old times, he immediately recovered himself. He kissed the hand of Miss Agnes, as in former days, and saluted Elinor in the same way, instead of the more brotherly greetings with which he used to meet her of old.
"And here is Jane, too, Harry," said Mrs. Hazlehurst, who had just embraced her sister. "You have been so long away, that I dare say you have forgotten half your old friends."
"Not at all," said Harry, crossing the room to Jane. "I think myself a very lucky fellow, at finding them all collected here together, for my especial benefit. I met Mr. Taylor for a moment in New York," he continued, addressing Jane.
"Did he say when he was coming for me?" replied Mrs. Taylor, offering her hand to her kinsman.
"He told me that he should be at Saratoga very shortly."
"I have a letter for you in my trunk, Jane," said Mrs. Robert
Hazlehurst.