"
"Yes, that must be the man. He was flying from England, having been
suspected of some embezzlement."
"Indeed! And was Jenny engaged to him? Julius told me that Mrs.
Douglas had been his mother's dearest friend, and that this Archie
had been brought up with them, but he did not say any more."
"Perhaps he did not like having had a cousin in an attorney's
office. I am sure I had no notion of such a thing."
Rosamond laughed till she was exhausted at the notion of Julius's
sharing the fastidious objections she heard in Cecil's voice; and
then, struck by the sadness of the story, she cried, "And that makes
them all so fond of Miss Bowater. Poor girl, what must she not have
gone through! And yet how cheerful she does look!"
"People say," proceeded Cecil, unable to resist the impulse to
acquire a partaker in her half-jealous aversion, "that it was a
great disappointment that Mrs. Poynsett could not make her sons like
her as much as she did herself."
"Oh!" cried Rosamond, "how little peace we should have if we always
heeded what people say!"
"People that know," persisted Cecil.
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