Chapter 14 - (VERSO)

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as you are even this moment thinking of doing.”

“Well, I must go and milk the cows,” gasped Louisa, rather glad to make her escape. Nancy’s power of thought reading struck her as uncanny. She felt afraid to remain with her cou cousin any longer, lest Nancy should drag to light all the secrets of her being.

Nancy sat long on the steps after Louisa had gone—sat until the night came down, darkly and sweetly, over the garden, and the stars twinkled out above the firs. This had been her home in girlhood. Here she had lived and kept