Warlock's death and the disappointment of her
expectations? The Chapel now apparently was to be taken over by
Thurston, who had married Amy Warlock and was full of schemes and
enterprises. Maggie knew that the aunts went now very seldom to
Chapel, and the Inside Saints were apparently in pieces. Was Aunt
Anne utterly broken by all this? She did not seem to be so. She
seemed to be very much as she had been, except that she was in her
room now a great deal. Her health appeared, on the whole, to be
better than it had been. And what was Aunt Elizabeth thinking? And
Martha? And Miss Avies? And Caroline Smith? . . .
No, she must get out into the world and discover these things for
herself. She did not know how the way of escape would come, but she
was certain of its arrival.
It arrived, and through her third visitor. Her third visitor was
Mrs. Mark.
When Katherine Mark came in Maggie was writing to Uncle Mathew. She
put aside her writing-pad with a little exclamation of surprise.
Mrs. Mark, the very last person in all the world whom she had
expected to see! As she saw her come in she had a swift intuition
that this was Destiny now that was dealing with her, and that a new
scene, involving every sort of new experience and adventure, was
opening before her.
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