'And risen to you, ye who fear my name,
Hath the sun of righteousness and healing in its wings.'
I feel that now. I never could understand it before."
"There are a great many things that we cannot understand till we feel them,—are there not, David?"
"I suppose so," he said thoughtfully.
Their talk stopped there; and presently the people who had gone out came pouring back. Norton brought a great piece of sponge-cake to Matilda.
"Thank you, Norton, but I'm not hungry, I've just had breakfast a few minutes ago."
"You hadn't time to eat."
"Yes, I had. You spent your time talking, I suppose; you and Mr. Richmond; that's the reason you are hungry."
Norton sat down and eat his sponge-cake; and spoke no more till the train got in. The carriage was in waiting; took the two boys immediately to school, and carried Matilda and the bags home.
She wondered all day how and when David's disclosure would be made, and how it would be taken at home. She had a good many questions to answer herself, even Judy seeming curious to know what they had been doing and how they had spent the time, and why they had not come home Saturday; especially what David had done with himself and why he had taken it into his head to go at all. Matilda declined to enter into any discussion of David's affairs, and left him to speak for himself. But much she wondered how he would, and whether he would, and when he would.