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At the use of her Christian name Maggie blushed with pleasure.
"I couldn't come," she said. "I didn't want to until--until--until
some things had settled themselves."
"Well--and they have?" asked Katherine.
"Yes--they have," said Maggie.
"What's been the matter?" asked Katherine.
"I was worried about something, and then I was ill," said Maggie.
"And you're not worried now?" said Katherine.
"I'm not going to give in to it, anyway," said Maggie. "As soon as
I'm well, I'm off. I'll find some work somewhere."
"I've got a plan," said Katherine. "It came into my head the moment
I saw you sitting there. Will you come and stay with us for a
little?"
That sense that Maggie had had when she saw Katherine of fate having
a hand in all of this deepened now and coloured her thoughts, so
that she could feel no surprise but only a curious instinct that she
had been through all this scene before.
"Stay with you!" she cried. "Oh, I should love to!"
"That's good," said Katherine. "Your aunts won't mind, will they?"
"They can't keep me," said Maggie. "I'm free. But they won't want
to.


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