But,
more than once during the meal, the man caught the collie's eyes
fixed on him in worried supplication; and was hard put to it not
to grant the plea which fairly clamored in his chum's mute gaze.
After dinner, when the Mistress and the Master set off on their
usual evening walk, Lad was not on hand to accompany them. As a
rule, he was all around them and in front and behind, in a series
of gay rushes, as they started on these walks. But not until the
Master called him, tonight, did he appear. And then he came up
dolorously from the tool-house.
Lad did not understand, at all, what was wrong. He knew only that
Lady had been shut up in a place she detested and that she was
horribly unhappy and that the Master would not let her out. It
perplexed him; and it made him increasingly wretched. Not only
did he miss his playfully capricious young mate, but her
unhappiness made him heartsick.
Vainly, he tried to plead with the Master for her release, as the
walk began; and again at its end.
There were such a lot of things in the world that even the
cleverest collie could not make head or tail of! And most of
these things were sad.
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