And I did, almost.
The next afternoon Fanny and I went out for a long walk. Aunt Huldah encouraged our going, for she was coloring, and wanted from the store both indigo and alum.
"Do you know the person with whom Rachel is staying?" asked Fanny, as soon as we were fairly started.
"Mrs. James? Yes, she is a nice young woman."
"Do you think Rachel would like to learn the milliner's trade? It would be a good thing for her."
"So it would; but where?"
"Does she know much of your friends, of how you are situated?"
"No. In the few hours we were together I was too much occupied in drawing her out to speak of my own affairs."
"I suppose she knows where you live?"
"I don't know; I think, if I spoke of any place, it was Cambridge,—I hailed from there."