Chapter Thirty-EightEliza
Mrs. Reynolds has return'd home, Annie informed me in a letter delivered by a courier. She went to your husband's office yestermorn and was turnd away, waited for him outside the treasury office, and later followd him to the City Tavern, where she tarryed outside a quarter hour and headed home. Then this noontime, she returnd to your husband's office. She did not come out. I stood on the corner, but did not see her. Fourty minutes later, Congressman Laurence arrived. I know him because he served in the War as a commissioned officer. An old frend of your husband, mayhap? Take of that what you will. After one compleat hour, I departed, with no reason to tarry further.
Ah, yes, Congressman Laurence was a friend of Alex. But why did Maria not come out? Had she spent
