Good wishes to Mrs. Winters. "Heart's Gold--such a really _inspiring_
moving-picture." Advice. Advice. Then, half-way down the next to last page
Nancy stops puzzledly. She doesn't quite understand.
"And hope, my daughter, that now you are really cured though you may have
passed through bitter waters but all such things are but God's divine will
to chasten us. And when the young man told me of his _escapade_ I felt that
even over the telephone he might have"
She sets herself wearily to decode some sort of definite meaning out
of Mother's elliptic style. An escapade. Of Oliver? and over the
telephone--what was that? Mother hadn't said anything--
She finishes the letter and then rereads all the parts of it that seem to
have any bearing on the cryptogram, and finally near the end, and evidently
connected with the "telephone," she comes upon the phrase "that day."
There is only one day that Mother alludes to as "That Day" now. Before her
broken engagement "That Day" was when Father failed.
But Oliver _hadn't_ telephoned--she'd asked Mother _particularly_ if he
had, and he hadn't.
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