Instantly the eyes of Mrs. Markham and the doctor met, the latter
feeling very uncomfortable, while the former was confirmed in the
suspicion raised by what Maddy told her the day before.
It was the doctor who carried Maddy's answer to Agnes, the doctor who
made all the succeeding arrangements, deciding that Maddy would not be
wholly strong until the very day fixed upon by Agnes for her departure
for Saratoga. For this Guy was sorry. It would have been an easy
matter for him to have ridden down to the cottage, and seen the girl
in whom he was beginning to feel so much interest that in his last
letter to Lucy he had mentioned her as about to become his sister's
governess; but he did not care to see her there. It seemed to him that
the surroundings of that slanting-roofed house did not belong to her,
and he would rather meet her in his own more luxurious home. But the
doctor's word was law, and so, on the first day of August he followed
Agnes and her three huge traveling trunks to the carriage, and was
driven from the house to which Maddy was coming that afternoon.