While Dolly Gibson was helping her mother by wiping the dinner dishes,
she said, with that air of judicial conviction that is shown by some
children, that she guessed that the lady in the red dress was Mr.
Leopold's girl, and that the blind lady in the blue dress was Mr.
Quincy's.
After a light supper they again gathered in the parlor and an hour was
devoted to music. Leopold neither played nor sang, but he was an
attentive and critical listener. It was a beautiful moonlight night, and
Leopold asked Rosa if she would not like to take a walk up on the Cliff.
She readily consented, but Alice pleasantly declined Quincy's invitation
to accompany them, and for the first time since the old days at Mason's
Corner, he and she were alone together.
They talked of Eastborough and Mason's Corner and Aunt Ella for a while.
Then conversation lagged and they sat for a time in a satisfied,
peaceful silence.
Suddenly Quincy spoke. "I had almost forgotten, Miss Pettengill, I
bought a new song yesterday morning, and I brought it with me. If you
have no objection I will try, it over.
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