Edith was about to ask him of the portrait in the drawing room,
when he prevented her by making some playful allusion to the
circumstances of their first acquaintance.
"I began to think you had forgotten me," said Edith, "though I
knew you could not well forget the theft unjustly charged to me."
She hoped he would now speak of Nina, but he did not, and as she
for the first time remembered Mr. Griswold, she said, after a
moment's pause,
"I came near forgetting my principal errand here. I could have
sent your keys, but I would rather deliver Mr. Griswold's message
myself."
She expected Arthur to start, but she was not prepared for him to
spring from his chair as suddenly as he did.
"Mr. Griswold!" he repeated. "Where did you see him? Has HE been
here? What did he say? Tell me, Edith--Miss Hastings--I beg your
pardon--tell me his errand."
He stood close to her now, and his eyes did not leave her face for
an instant while she repeated the particulars of her interview
with the stranger.
"And this is all--you've told me all that passed between you?" he
asked, eagerly.
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