Just look at it for yourself. Everything was going
smoothly until Elizabeth came. Now it's not. Elizabeth has told you
she's had goings-on with Harry Goward. I don't see, Ada, how you can be
so blind as not to be willing to look the truth in the face. If it's
not Elizabeth's fault, whose is it? I don't suppose you believe Henry
Goward's dying for love of Aunt Elizabeth when he can look at Peggy!
Oh, I'd like to hear his side of the story! For you may be sure that
there is one!"
"Mother," said Ada, "if I believed Elizabeth had done anything to mar
that child's happiness--"
She stopped for fear, I suppose, of what she might be led to say. "We
mustn't judge before we know," she finished. But I knew by the look on
her face that, if Aunt Elizabeth has made trouble, Ada will never
forgive her.
"What does Cyrus say to all this?" I asked, by way of diversion.
"Oh, I haven't told Cyrus anything about it. I didn't intend to tell
any one--about Aunt Elizabeth's part in it. I think Cyrus is a little
uneasy himself, but he's been so busy lately--"
"Well," I said, "_I_ think Cyrus ought to be told! And you're the one
to do it. Don't let's judge, to be sure, before we know everything, but
I think Cyrus ought to know the mischief his sister is making!
Elizabeth simply makes a convenience of this house.
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