"If I've made a mistake," said she, "isn't seeing him
the best way to realize it?"
"Yes," instantly and emphatically admitted the acute old lady.
"See him, by all means. See as much of him as possible. And in a
few days you will be laughing at yourself--and very much ashamed."
"I wonder," said Margaret aloud, but chiefly to herself.
And Madam Bowker, seeing the doubt in her face, only a faint
reflection of the doubt that must be within, went away content.
CHAPTER XII
PUTTING DOWN A MUTINY
Margaret made it an all but inflexible rule not to go out, but to
rest and repair one evening in each week; that was the evening,
under the rule, but she would have broken the rule had any
opportunity offered. Of course, for the first time since the
season began, no one sent or telephoned to ask her to fill in at
the last moment. She half-expected Craig, though she knew he was
to be busy; he neither came nor called up. She dined moodily with
the family, sat surlily in a corner of the veranda until ten
o'clock, hid herself in bed. She feared she would have a sleepless
night. But she had eaten no dinner; and, as indigestion is about
the only thing that will keep a healthy human being awake, she
slept dreamlessly, soundly, not waking until Selina slowly and
softly opened the inner blinds of her bedroom at eight the next
morning.
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