Actuated by this feeling, she no longer deemed it necessary to dissemble in his presence.
It was a long step in advance.
He had arrived at this very pleasant conclusion, when Sexton appeared in the door, evidently looking for some one.

The man espied him there in the shadow of the vines, and came forward.
"Miss Coolidge requests your presence, sir, for a few moments," he said gravely.
"Why, certainly; did she say where, Sexton ?" "In the library, sir; she is waiting there now." West hesitated an instant.

There was a question he was eager to ask, but immediately thought better of it.

Interviewing servants was not in his line, and there were other ways of learning the truth.
"Very well," he said quietly.

"I will join her at once.