. A little queen of hearts; an international story . ing that the professional ear was quick to detect, and that was fullof good omen for the waking in the morning. CHAPTER IX. GETTING OUT OF IT. A WHOLE chapter justwith grown-up people, andnot a very pleasant chapterat that! For one, 1 hada deal rather be with certainlittle friends of ours up atWindsor, but we cannot goyet a while; and having seenthe little Berkshire cottageturned inside out, as it were,there is nothing for it butto wait and see it put torights again. Besides, whenall is said, Ted is Haroldsbrother, so that, scapegraceor no,
. A little queen of hearts; an international story . ing that the professional ear was quick to detect, and that was fullof good omen for the waking in the morning. CHAPTER IX. GETTING OUT OF IT. A WHOLE chapter justwith grown-up people, andnot a very pleasant chapterat that! For one, 1 hada deal rather be with certainlittle friends of ours up atWindsor, but we cannot goyet a while; and having seenthe little Berkshire cottageturned inside out, as it were,there is nothing for it butto wait and see it put torights again. Besides, whenall is said, Ted is Haroldsbrother, so that, scapegraceor no, we ought not to de-liberately turn our backs,at a time too when mattershave reached a crisis, andone wonders how they willgo with him. But fortu-nately they went far betterthan even the doctor daredto hope, and with the morn-ing came consciousness, andall the dazed bewildermentas well, of one who findshimself in wholly new sur-roundings, with no idea whatever of how he came there. Every-body was early astir in the cottage, and quite ready to forget. THE LITTLE MAID, MARTHA. GETTING OUT OF IT. 89 the anxiety and excitement of the night in the doctors gladassurance that the young gentleman certainly was not donefor. As for the other young gentlemen, who had been allowed tosleep off their indisposition in Mrs. Hartleys best room, it was agreedbetween the doctor and Harry Allyn that the sooner they tooktheir departure the better. Breakfast for two was therefore first madeready, and the young fellows, who had gotten up and dressed—some-what against their will, it must be confessed—finally took their seatsat the places set for them. Martha, who had no notion of waitingon such sorry customers, was careful to place everything within armsreach on the table and then to disappear, and the meal was eaten insilence, with no one in the room save the doctor, who kept pacingup and down in a manner that was intended to expedite their de-parture. The two fellows seemed to realize that they w
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