Andrew Churchill, engaged in making up a fresh bed with linen
smelling faintly of lavender, dropped her sheets and blankets and stood
up straight. She gazed across the room at Andy, whose face expressed
both amusement and dismay.
"Andy," said she, "haven't I somewhere heard a proverb to the effect
that it never rains but it pours?"
"There's an impression on my mind that you have," said her husband. "You
are now about to have a practical demonstration of that same proverb. I
wrote Lee, as you suggested after his second telegram, and this is his
answer. He was detained by the illness of his sister Evelyn, who is with
him. It seems she was at school up here in our state, but overworked and
finally broke down, and he has come to take her home. But you see home
for them means a boarding-house. The family is broken up, mother dead,
father at the ends of the earth; and Lee has Evelyn on his hands. The
worst of it is, he wants me to see her professionally, so I can't very
well suggest that we're too full to entertain her."
"Of course you can't," agreed Charlotte, promptly. "But it means that we
must find another room somewhere in the house.
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