"
Leaving them to talk over future plans, Quincy went back to the hotel
and wrote two letters. The first was addressed to Lord Algernon Hastings
in London. The other was a brief note to Aunt Ella, informing her that a
party of four would start for Boston on the morning train and that she
might expect them about four o'clock in the afternoon.
It lacked but five minutes of that hour when a carriage, containing the
party from New York, stopped before the Mt. Vernon Street house. It
suited Quincy's purpose that his companions should first meet his wife,
although the fact that she was his wife was as yet unknown to them.
The meeting between Alice and Linda was friendly, but not effusive. They
had been ordinary acquaintances in the old days at Eastborough, but now
a mutual satisfaction and pleasure drew them more closely together.
"I have come," said Linda, "to thank you, Miss Pettengill, for your
kindness and justice to me. Few women would have disregarded the solemn
oath that Mrs. Putnam forced you to take, but by doing so you have given
me a lawful name and a life of happiness for the future.
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