The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 20 Page 8

so glad for Cassandra; I could hug you, Doctor Thryng.” Suddenly she turned on her husband. “James! Have you thought of everything — all the consequences? What will his mother — and the family over in England say?”

James threw up his hand and laughed.

“Don’t laugh, James. Have you thought this all out, Doctor? Are you sure you can make them understand over there? Won’t they think this awfully irregular? Will they ever be reconciled? I know how they are. My father was English.”

“They never need be reconciled. It’s our affair, and there’s nothing to call me back there to live. What I do, or whom I make my wife, is nothing to them. I may visit my mother, of course, but for the rest,