"Bobby McGinnis, why don't you help me?" she demanded, tearfully.
"But you don't mean--you can't mean----" McGinnis paused, his breath suspended.
Two minutes later Bobby McGinnis himself stood tall and straight just inside the door.
Frank Spencer had already left the Mill House and gone to Hilcrest when McGinnis was well enough to go back to his place in the mills.
Even Bobby McGinnis, when she saw him at all--which was seldom--treated her with a frigid deference that was inexpressibly annoying to her.
For some time after McGinnis went away, Margaret remained at the Mill House; but she was restless and unhappy in the position in which she found herself.
McGinnis taught an evening class at the Mill House, and she knew that it could not be easy for him to see her so frequently now that the engagement was broken.