She was indignant with Harry for the part that he had taken in the affair, and indignant and vexed with herself for the degree of freedom and intimacy which she had been suffering to grow up between him and herself.

Her first impulse was to break it off altogether, and have nothing more to say to or do with him.

She felt as if she would like to take the short course which young girls sometimes take out of the first serious mortification or trouble in their life, and run away from it altogether.

She would have liked to have packed her trunk, taken her seat on board the cars, and gone home to Springdale the next day, and forgotten all about the whole of it; but then, what should she say to Mrs.Van Astrachan?
what account could she give for the sudden breaking up of her visit?
Then, there was Harry going to call on her the next day! What ought she to say to him?
On the whole, it was a delicate matter for a young girl of twenty to manage alone.

How she longed to have the counsel of her sister or her mother! She thought of Mrs.Van Astrachan; but then, again, she did not wish to disturb that good lady's pleasant, confidential relations with Harry, and tell tales of him out of school: so, on the whole, she had a restless and uncomfortable night of it.
Mrs.Van Astrachan expressed her surprise at seeing Rose take her place at the breakfast-table the next morning.