The rich color ebbed steadily from her face, and dark
lines under her eyes betokened sleepless nights. She saw the many
curious glances in her direction, but apparently did not care what
was thought or surmised. Were it not that her manner to Ackland
was so misleading, the tendency to couple their names together
would have been far more general. She neither sought nor shunned
his society; in fact, she treated him as she did the other
gentlemen of her acquaintance. She took him at his word. He had
said he would forgive her on condition that she would not speak of
what he was pleased to term that "little episode," and she never
referred to it.
Her aunt was as much at fault as the others, and one day
querulously complained to Mrs. Alston that she was growing anxious
about Eva. "At first I thought she was disappointed over the
indifference of that icy cousin of yours; but she does not appear
to care a straw for him. When I mention his name she speaks of him
in a natural, grateful way, then her thoughts appear to wander off
to some matter that is troubling her.
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