Alas! I am afraid that the cheeks aflame at breakfast-time were the immediate cause of the change.

Mrs.Hollenbeck would not have made so marked a movement for an evening's entertainment: it seemed to suit her very well that I should talk to the tutor in the library before breakfast, and she meant to give me opportunities for talking to him in the parlor too.
"A dreary evening, is it not ?" she began.

"What shall we all do?
Charlotte, can't you think of something ?" Charlotte, who had her own plans for a quiet evening by the lamp with a new book, of course could not think of anything.
"Henrietta, at least you shall give us some music, and Mr.Langenau, I am sure you will be good enough to help us; I will send over to the school-room for that flute and those piles of music that I've seen upon a shelf, and you will be charitable enough to play for us." "I must beg you will not take that trouble." "Oh, Mr.Langenau, that is selfish now." Mrs.Hollenbeck did not press the subject then, but made herself thoroughly delightful during tea, and as we rose from the table renewed the request in a low tone to Mr.Langenau: and the result was, a little after eight o'clock he came into the parlor where we sat.

A place was made for him at the table around which we were sitting, and Mrs.
Hollenbeck began the process of putting him at his ease.

There was no need.