CHAPTER XVII
THEIR SEVERAL WAYS
As Wilfrid quitted the house, the gate was opened by Jessie Cartwright, who, accompanied by one of her sisters, was bringing Emily some fine grapes, purchased, in the Cartwright manner, without regard to expense. The girls naturally had their curiosity excited by the stranger of interesting, even of aristocratic, appearance, who, as he hurried by, east at them a searching look.
‘Now, who ever may that be?’ murmured Jessie, as she approached the door.
‘A doctor, I dare say,’ was her sister’s suggestion.
‘A doctor! Not he, indeed. He has something to do with Emily, depend upon it.’
The servant, opening to them, had to report that Miss Hood was too unwell to-day to receive visitors. Jessie would dearly have liked to ask who it was that apparently had been
