It only remains for me now to get all my people happy as
soon as possible. Zany and Chunk 'make up,' and a good deal of their
characteristic love-making will be worked in to relieve the rather
sombre state of things at this stage. Whately returns with his empty
sleeve, more of a hero than ever in his own eyes and his mother's.
Miss Lou thinks him strangely thoughtful and considerate in keeping
away, as he does, after a few short visits at The Oaks. The truth
is, he is wofully disappointed at the change in his cousin's looks.
This pale, listless, hollow-eyed girl is not the one who set him to
reading 'Taming of the Shrew.' That her beauty of color and of
outline could ever return, he does not consider; and in swift
revulsion of feeling secretly pays court elsewhere.
"Mrs. Whately, however, makes up for her son's deficiencies. Utterly
ignorant how affairs are shaping, she works by her representations
upon Miss Lou's sympathies until the weary consent is wrung from the
poor girl--'Nothing matters to me any more! If it makes you all
happy--why--then--But I must wait a year.
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