She did not heed their answers. She did not realize that she was shutting them out when she shut herself in with her father; but they understood.
VI.
Northwick stared round him in the light of the lamp which Adeline turned up. He held fast by one of her hands. "What's he going to do? Has he gone for the officer? Is he going to give me up?"
"Who? Elbridge Newton? Well, I guess his wife hasn't forgot what you did for them when their little boy died, if he has, and I guess he hasn't gone for any officer! Where did you see him?"
"In the house. I was there."
"But how did he know it?"
"I had to have a light to see by."
"Oh, my goodness! If anybody else had caught you I don't know what I should have done. I don't see how you could be so venturesome!"
"I thought you were there. I had to come back. I couldn't stand it any longer, when that fellow came with your letter."