He hurried out to meet them.
Her father and Roger, the girl said, had gone to a yacht race at
Hyannis, so she had brought Mr. Snelling over. She introduced the two
men but refused somewhat curtly to come in, explaining that she would
be back, or some one else would, to fetch the guest home to Belleport
for luncheon. Then, without a backward glance, she started the engine
and disappeared around the curve of the Harbor Road.
Perhaps it was just as well, Robert Morton reflected, that she had not
accepted his invitation to come in, for to bring her and Delight
together at this delicate juncture might result in awkwardness;
nevertheless, it certainly was something unprecedented for Cynthia to
be so brusque and be in such a hurry. The enigma puzzled him, and he
found it recurring to his mind persistently. However, he resolutely
shook it off and turned his attention instead to his new acquaintance.
He was, he could not but admit, quite unprepared to find Mr. Howard
Snelling, his future chief, possessed of so attractive a personality.
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