When the seeds of distrust have been sown they will grow, even if the weeds crowd out everything else."
"But weeds can be dug up."
"That must be my part," Miriam answered, more calmly.
"Only one course is left. It's funny," she smiled, swiftly, through her tears. "There is poetic justice in it.
I can do only one thing. It is my retribution."
IV.
The announcement which Mrs. Gunnison made on the following morning came as a surprise to Miriam. She had some difficulty in not displaying an undue excitement.
The habit of containment, which had come with worldly experience, however, did not fail her. She heard her hostess state that Arthur Leeds was coming to stay in the house without any exhibition of visible emotion. Mrs.
Gunnison said that, as the Barlows had other people coming, he was going to transfer himself to "Highlands," and that he would arrive in time for luncheon. Any fears which Miriam experienced were wholly offset by a devout thankfulness. The event offered such an occasion for the carrying out of her plan as she had not hoped to have given her.
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