When the Girls Came Out
can do for her now. It's terrible to see people unhappy unless you can do things for them at once."
She didn't come back till long after lunch, and I met her at the gate. Her face was pale, and I could see that she had been crying. Drusilla's sympathetic heart will wear her out in time, I feel assured.
"Well?" I asked.
"Oh, Martin that poor thing—"
"Does she take it so much to heart?" I asked gently. "She feels, of course, that she has done Georgie an injury. Well—I am not surprised at that."
Drusilla looked surprised. "I am not talking about Georgie's mother," she said. "She's as jolly as anything. It's Diana."
"Diana?"
"Yes. Georgie's mother wrote to her last night and confessed what she had done, and the child rushed off at once. Ingraham is an awful place to get out of, and I am afraid she is the kind of poor little thing who always misses trains or gets into wrong ones. She was three
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