The Reason Why

Chapter 37

Tristram passed the afternoon outdoors, inspecting the stables, and

among his own favorite haunts, and then rushed in, too late for tea and

only just in time to catch the post. He wrote a letter to Ethelrida, and

his uncle-in-law that was to be. How ridiculous that sounded! He would

be his uncle and Zara's cousin now, by marriage! Then, when he thought

of this dear Ethelrida whom he had loved more than his own young

sisters, he hurriedly wrote out, as well, a telegram of affection and

congratulation which he handed to Michelham as he came in to get the

letters--and the old man left the room. Then Tristram remembered that he

had addressed the telegram to Montfitchet, and Ethelrida would, of

course, he now recollected, be at Glastonbury House, as she was coming

up that day--so he