Seven regrets in this mail and two in the early one.

Nine regrets in all! and I sent out only ten invitations.

What is the meaning of it?
I begin to feel myself ostracized." I did not understand it any more than she did.
"Invite others," I suggested, and was sorry for my presumption the next minute.
Her poor lip trembled.
"I do not dare," she whispered.

"Oh, what will Mr.Packard say! Some one or something is working against us.

We have enemies--enemies, and Mr.
Packard will never get his election." Her trouble was natural and so was her expression of it.