Chapter EightAt home she found Bill’s telegram. “On no account keep appointment.” To persons of Sally’s turn of mind it is very pleasing to find that you have done a thing which somebody forbids.
She sat down and wrote Major Armitage a faithful account of the forbidden interview, and she did not tell him that his telegram had arrived a day after the fair. If Bill supposed that just because they were friends again he could start ordering her about, he would have to be shown the error of his ways. Sally smiled and sparkled as she wrote.
When the letter was ready she asked Mrs. Callender to take it to the post, and, as it chanced, Mrs. Callender met Mr. Preston and gave him the letter instead of going on to the pillar box with it herself.
“Just drop it in as you go along, James, and I’ll s
