"
So, for a few moments she talked vaguely, and said at last: "But Lady
Eglington, she will be glad to see you, such old friends as you are,
though not so old as Windlehurst and me--thirty years, over thirty la,
la!"
They turned to go to Hylda, and came face to face with Kate Heaver.
Kate looked at David as one would look who saw a lost friend return from
the dead. His eyes lighted, he held out his hand to her.
"It is good to see thee here," he said gently. "And 'tis the cross-roads
once again, sir," she rejoined.
"Thee means thee will marry Jasper?"
"Ay, I will marry Jasper now," she answered. "It has been a long
waiting."
"It could not be till now," she responded.
David looked at her reflectively, and said: "By devious ways the human
heart comes home. One can only stand in the door and wait. He has been
patient."
"I have been patient, too," she answered.
As the Duchess disappeared with David, a swift change came over Lacey. He
spun round on one toe, and, like a boy of ten, careered around the deck
to the tune of a negro song.
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