The toilette of Katherine and Helen passed in a very different manner
that evening; Katherine did nothing but giggle and chatter
incessantly, about the game they had been playing at, in order to
prevent Helen from saying anything about the result of their
excursion the evening before, and to keep herself from thinking of
the cowardly part she had been acting all day. Helen only wished to
be left in peace, to think over her share in all these transactions,
and to consider how she might become a tolerably useful member of
society for the future; and on her making no reply to one of
Katherine's speeches, the latter suddenly became silent, and she was
left to her own reflections.
CHAPTER XII.
Elizabeth was always fully employed on a Sunday, and on that which
followed the Consecration she had perhaps more on her hands even than
usual, so that she had little opportunity for speaking, or even for
thinking, of her troubles.
Mr. Woodbourne was going to assist Mr. Somerville in the services at
St. Austin's, leaving Mr. Walker to do the duty at St.
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