"We have both tried, and she will not come." "Perhaps a woman--" said Parson Fair.

"I wish her mother were alive," he added, with a break in his voice.
"I will go and see her if you think it is best," said Mrs.Gordon.

In her heart she rebelled bitterly against seeming to plead with this unwilling bride to come to her son.

Had she not felt guilty for her son, with the conviction of his own secret deflection, she would never have mounted the spiral stairs to Dorothy Fair's chamber that night.

Parson Fair led the way, and Burr followed.