The young
ladies overhauled the entire collection of literature sent to Miss
Carmichael and to Wilkinson, and read a good many things that were not
for Sunday. As to the three matrons, it is nobody's business what they
did with their afternoon. Mr. Perrowne came back to his Fanny in the
evening, and Mr. Errol, to have "a crack" with Mrs. Carmichael. Monday
was fair enough to permit of a game of golf between the parsons, with
the colonel and the veteran for spectators. Miss Halbert went home in
the evening, and so, except for the wounded dominie upstairs and the
colonel, things went on in the usual jog-trot way, for Miss Du Plessis
had been at Bridesdale before. Letters and papers came from Coristine to
the bedridden dominie, and another package for Marjorie, before Saturday
night, but none for anybody else, for the reason that Miss Du Plessis
had written him simply at Wilkinson's dictation, and Mrs. Carruthers and
Miss Carmichael had not written at all. In her round of household duties
and the care of a young family, the former had forgotten all about her
letter, and the latter did not know what to say for herself, and did not
feel disposed to humiliate her sense of self-respect by reminding her
aunt of her promise.
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