Leaning in at
the window, he asked abruptly, but with a look she never could
forget:
"Will nothing change your answer, Christie?"
"Nothing."
His eyes said, "Forgive me," but his lips only said, "Good-by," and
the carriage rolled away.
Then, being a woman, two great tears fell on the hand still red with
the lingering grasp he had given it, and Christie said, as pitifully
as if she loved him:
"He has got a heart, after all, and perhaps I might have been glad
to fill it if he had only shown it to me sooner. Now it is too
late."
CHAPTER V.
COMPANION.
BEFORE she had time to find a new situation, Christie received a
note from Miss Tudor, saying that hearing she had left Mrs.
Saltonstall she wanted to offer her the place of companion to an
invalid girl, where the duties were light and the compensation
large.
"How kind of her to think of me," said Christie, gratefully. "I'll
go at once and do my best to secure it, for it must be a good thing
or she wouldn't recommend it."
Away went Christie to the address sent by Miss Tudor, and as she
waited at the door she thought:
"What a happy family the Carrols must be!" for the house was one of
an imposing block in a West End square, which had its own little
park where a fountain sparkled in the autumn sunshine, and pretty
children played among the fallen leaves.
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