The occurrence on the boat was tacitly dropped by all parties concerned,
and only when Hugh accidentally heard that the Sherwoods were preparing to
return to the States did his reserve break down, and it was to Mrs. Gurney
alone he expressed his regrets and intentions.
CHAPTER XXXI.
"Here's news, girls; we are going back to Maine!" and Georgie rushed into
the sitting-room where his sisters and their girl friends were chatting
together. "Papa says we are going back _for sure_, in just a few weeks,
too! Isn't that jolly?" and he manifested his delight in a series of
handsprings that would have charmed the heart of an acrobat.
"Yes, I heard something of it, but hoped it would not come to pass," said
Dexie.
"It is the best news I've heard for a long time, the sooner we leave this
horrid place the better I'll be pleased," was Gussie's comment.
Elsie was quite depressed at the thought of parting from her friends; but
the intervening weeks were full of pleasure and excitement, and drives and
parties seemed to follow one another in quick succession.
One day Dexie came in from a shopping expedition in great excitement,
saying:
"Oh, girls, I have met my double; met her down in a store on Granville
Street, and I actually followed her until she entered a house on Spring
Garden Road.
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