“I have made up my mind.”
“It is the privilege of wise minds to change, Eve. I want you as well as Lynette.”
“Don’t make me suffer. Do you think it is easy?”
“Let me show you——”
“No, no! If you try to persuade me, I shall refuse to listen.”
And then silence fell on both of them, for Lynette returned with a large rhubarb leaf holding a little mountain of red fruit.
CHAPTER XVIII
EVE SPEAKS OUT
Eve felt very restless that evening, and with seeming illogicality went up to her room at the old-time hour of nine.