"Every now and then I have moments of talking
nonsense. It 's the air of Baden, I think; it 's too exciting. It
's only lately I have been so. When you go away I shall be horribly
ashamed."
"If the air of Baden has such an effect upon you," said Bernard, "it
is only a proof the more that you need the solicitous attention of your
friends."
"That may be; but, as I told you just now, I have no confidence--none
whatever, in any one or anything. Therefore, for the present, I shall
withdraw from the world--I shall seclude myself. Let us go on being
quiet, mamma. Three or four days of it have been so charming. Let the
parcel lie till it 's called for. It is much safer it should n't be
touched at all. I shall assume that, metaphorically speaking, Mr.
Wright, who, as you have intimated, is our earthly providence, has
turned the key upon us. I am locked up. I shall not go out, except upon
the balcony!" And with this, Angela stepped out of the long window and
went and stood beside Miss Evers.
Bernard was extremely amused, but he was also a good deal puzzled, and
it came over him that it was not a wonder that poor Wright should not
have found this young lady's disposition a perfectly decipherable page.
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