The opening of XXIV. FAMILY GHOOLS
'Know ye that Love is a careless child,
And forgets promise past?
He is blind--he is deaf where he list,
And in faith never fast.'
Raleigh.Captain Harewood was gone. There was a good deal of truth in Wilmet's plea that much pain might have been saved if she had been allowed to abide by her first answer; but by this time she would not have saved it.
She was a brave woman, and never sought indulgence; and all she accepted was the spending his last Saturday and Sunday at his home with him; and even on this she durst not venture without taking Alda, and exposing the dear untidy household to her disdain; but that October Sunday walk by the river was worth it all--worth infinitely more than the July walk; and they both declared it gave them strength.