Suddenly the singer seemed to change her mind, for the music
began slowly to recede and was soon lost to hearing within the
four walls of the Den. Not a word was spoken by either Arthur or
Edith, until the latter said,
"It is time I was at home," and she arose to go.
He offered no remonstrance, but accompanying her to the gate,
placed her in the saddle, and then stood watching her as she
galloped away.
CHAPTER XV.
NINA.
Three or four times Edith went to Grassy Spring, seeing nothing of
the mysterious occupant of the Den, hearing nothing of her, and
she began to think she might have returned to Worcester. Many
times she was on the point of questioning Arthur, but from what
had passed, she knew how disagreeable the subject was to him, and
she generously forbore.
"I think he might tell me, anyway," she said to herself, half
poutingly, when, one morning near the latter part of April, she
rode slowly toward Grassy Spring.
Their quarrel, if quarrel it could be called, had been made up,
or, rather, tacitly forgotten, and Arthur more than once had
cursed himself for having, in a moment of excitement, asked her to
marry Richard Harrington.
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