[The Hermit of Far End by Margaret Pedler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Hermit of Far End CHAPTER XVI 13/17
"-- MOLLY. "P.S .-- Don't worry--it's all quite proper and respectable.
I'm to go straight to the house of one of Lester's sisters in London. "P.P.S .-- I'm frantically happy." Sara's eyes were wet when she finished the perusal of the hastily scribbled letter.
"We are to be married to-morrow morning!" The blind, pathetic confidence of it! And if Black Brady had spoken the truth, if Lester Kent were already a married man, to-morrow morning would convert the trusting, wayward baby of a woman, with her adorable inconsistencies and her big, generous heart, into something Sara dared not contemplate. The thought of the look in those brown-gold eyes, when Molly should know the truth, brought a lump into her throat. She turned to Jane Crab. "Listen to me, Jane," she said tersely.
"Miss Molly's run away with Mr.Lester Kent.
She thinks he's going to marry her.
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