The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 26 Page 8

added his mother, proudly. “He must see opportunities for service. He must understand that he is needed.”

“I see. I understand. He must be dealt with along the line of his nobler impulses — ahem — ahem — ” and David appeared.

His mother rose and took his arm to walk out to dinner, while Laura, who should have gone with Mr. Stretton, did not see his proffered arm, but, provokingly indifferent, strolled out by herself.

David, absorbed in his own thoughts, did not notice his sister’s careless mien, but the mother observed the independent and boyish swing of her daughter’s shoulders, and resented it with a slightly reproving glance after they were seated.

Laura lifted her eyebrows and one shoulder with an irritating half shrug.