In the road
he came face to face with Jonathan Gay, who was riding leisurely in the
direction of Jordan's Journey.
"How are you, Revercomb? All well?"
"Yes, all well, thank you." Turning in his tracks, he gazed thoughtfully
after the rider for a moment.
"I wonder why he came out of his way instead of keeping to the
turnpike?" he thought, and a minute later, "that's the third time he's
come back since the family left Jordan's Journey."
CHAPTER II
THE DESIRE OF THE MOTH
At the gate before the Revercombs' house Blossom was standing in a dress
of vivid blue.
"Are you going to a party?" Abel inquired as he reached her, and she
answered impatiently:
"I promised to wear this dress over to Judy's, so that she could see how
it is trimmed."
"Does she want a blue one?" he asked. It seemed to him little short of
ludicrous that Judy should buy a new dress because she was going to be
married to him; but in the presence of a custom so firmly entrenched
behind the traditions of respectability, he knew that protest would be
useless. Judy would check out her unromantic person in wedding finery
because finery was customary on such occasions.
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