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I have no friend but
Alfred Hardie: and my bitterest enemies are my cold-blooded father and
her cold-blooded mother."
The above sentences, of course, were never uttered. But they represent
his thoughts accurately, though in a condensed form, and are, as it were,
a miniature of this young heart boiling over.
From that moment he lay in wait for her, and hovered about the house day
and night, determined to appeal to her personally, and undeceive her, and
baffle her mother's treachery. But at this game he was soon detected:
Mrs. Dodd lived on the watch now. Julia, dressed to go out, went to the
window one afternoon to look at the weather; but retreated somewhat
hastily and sat down on the sofa.
"You flutter, darling," said Mrs. Dodd. "Ah! he is there."
"Yes."
"You had better take off your things."
"Oh, yes. I tremble at the thoughts of meeting him. Mamma, he is changed,
sadly changed. Poor, poor Alfred!" She went to her own room and prayed
for him. She informed the Omniscient that, though much greater and better
in other respects than she was, he had not Patience.


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