We arranged for the hour, and Mr. Thorold hastened away.
CHAPTER XV.
FORT PUTNAM.
"I am going to Fort Putnam this afternoon, with Mr. Thorold,"
— I announced to Mrs. Sandford, after dinner.
"Who is Mr. Thorold?"
"One of the cadets."
"One of the cadets! So it has got hold of you at last, Daisy!"
"What, Mrs. Sandford?"
"But Fort Putnam? My dearest child, it is very hot!"
"Oh, yes, ma'am — I don't mind it."
"Well, I am very glad, if you don't," said Mrs. Sandford. "And
I am very glad Grant has taken himself off to the White Lakes.
He gave nobody else any chance. It will do you a world of
good."
"What will?" I asked, wondering.
"Amusement, dear, — amusement. Something a great deal better
than Grant's 'elegies and 'ologies. Now this would never have
happened if he had been at home."
I did not understand her, but then I knew she did not
understand the pursuits she so slighted; and it was beyond my
powers to enlighten her. So I did not try.
Mr. Thorold was punctual, and so was I; and we set forth at
five o'clock, I at least as happy as it was possible to be.
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