Blue Ruin by Grace Livingston Hill

Author:Grace Livingston Hill
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781602603301
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-09-02T14:00:00+00:00

Hastily,

Lynette

He read the words until they danced before his eyes like little insects in the light, until they beat their way into his angry brain and pierced their meaning to his soul. And gradually he sifted them and twisted them until he evolved a theory that satisfied his mood.

Ah! So that was it. Lynn was sore because he had said she lacked poise. It was all a case of pride! That showed how changed she was. In the old days she welcomed criticism and always set herself to make right whatever he suggested. But now she wished to set herself up as perfect. Well, that was the natural tendency in these days for all fanatics to think themselves perfect and everybody else in the wrong. She had got that way in college, of course. Where else!

He sat there a while longer meditating on the letter and evolved further. Lynette had run away down to New York because she was angry. She was not really going to Europe. She would never dare carry it that far. She expected him to come after her and bring her back. That was what he would have done if she got what she used to call “hurt” in the old days. But those days were gone, and he was a grown man with a right to respect and honor. She must learn that they were not children now and she must not run off like a crybaby and expect to be run after and petted. No sir! He would not go after her! She might come back when she liked. He would see whether she would really carry out her threat or not. She never would. He remembered with a satisfied thrill the way she had looked at him yesterday afternoon when she told him she would rather stay at home because he was going to be there, too. Ah! Rubbish! She would never go to Europe. She just said that for effect!

And that dig about having a pleasant summer showed she had another grievance, too. She was jealous of Jessie Belle!

Well, his lesson had worked then. She had seen them drive by in the morning. But no—Lynette had gone on the eight seventeen. She didn’t get the idea of the drive to the Mohawk trail after all. But it was plain to be seen she was jealous of the other girl. Well, that was a good sign. She would come back all right, and probably before night. She might be even now coming in on the five o’clock train. But he, Dana, would not be there to meet her. She was not to have the fatted calf killed for her either when she did return—not by him. She would have to eat humble pie before he would forgive her for this tantrum. How strange that Lynn, his Lynn, should have fallen to such a ruse to bring about her own way. Well, it was all her fault. He had nothing for which to blame himself.

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