“I am very sorry, old chap, but we must now go through it. You must forbid her to communicate with him.”
“She won’t heed what I say. It will only excite her. She will fly at me, and call me names, and burst into tears. I should not be surprised if she went off her head—she has been very strange once before. I don’t mean to say she was ever wrong in her head, but she is a nervous, excitable girl—most excitable; my sisters are the most excitable girls I have ever known.”
It was surprisingly soon over. Willy had not spoken a dozen words, when he was interrupted.
“You mean to say you have been to call on him?”
“Yes; and we told him he was never to speak to you again.”
Frank expected her eyes to flash fire, but he only noticed a slight change in her face, a movement of the muscles of the l
