"
"I am very glad you have come back, Godfrey," said the Major,
meeting him in the hall.
"God bless you, dear Godfrey," said Mrs. Garrow, "you will find
Bessy in the dining-room," she whispered; but in so whispering she
was quite unconscious of the mistletoe bough.
And so also was Bessy, nor do I think that she was much more
conscious when that introduction was over. Godfrey had made all
manner of promises to Frank, but when the moment arrived, he had
found the moment too important for any special reference to the
little bough above his head. Not so, however, Patty Coverdale.
"It's a shame," said she, bursting out of the room, "and if I'd
known what you had done, nothing on earth should have induced me to
go in. I won't enter the room till I know that you have taken it
out." Nevertheless her sister Kate was bold enough to solve the
mystery before the evening was over.
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