Chapter XII

Linda went back to Miss Dallow’s feeling rather stunned. Why was it that Bill Sargent angered her so easily and made her say so many things which she always repented as soon as she had left him? She got some supper for herself and sat down to eat it, but she had no appetite, and she put it away again and went to bed. In the morning Miss Dallow came to her sitting-room before she left the house. “I should like to speak to you a moment, if you please,” she said in her prim way. Linda turned round. “Yes, what is it?” …