He is
frequently to be seen at Hoppet Hall, calling there every Saturday
to take down the attorney to the Dillsborough club,--as was his
habit of old; but it would perhaps be premature to say that there
are very valid grounds for the hopes which Mrs. Masters already
entertains in reference to Kate. Kate is still too young and
childish to justify any prediction in that quarter.
What further need be said as to Reginald and his happy bride? Very
little;--except that in the course of her bridal tour she did
gradually find words to give him a true and accurate account of all
her own feelings from the time at which he first asked her to walk
with him across the bridge over the Dill and look at the old place.
They had both passed their childish years there, but could have but
little thought that they were destined then to love and grow old
together. "I was longing, longing, longing to come," she said.
"And why didn't you come?"
"How little you know about girls? Of course I had to go with the
one I--I--I--; well with the one I did not love down to the very
soles of his feet" And then there was the journey with the parrot.
"I rather liked the bird. I don't know that you said very much, but
I think you would have said less if there had been no bird."
"In fact I have been a fool all along."
"You weren't a fool when you took me out through the orchard and
caught me when I jumped over the wall.
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