"It completely upsets me at the time;
I am afraid you think me a coward--" He broke off abruptly.
"If it is nervousness, why don't you do something for it?--go to a
physician and get cured?" I answered shortly; it seemed to me so
silly--"so girlie," as Jack says--to try to turn his behaviour off
on _nervousness_.
"I _am_ under a physician's care," he said eagerly; "and he says if
I could only once--"
But just then the carriage that had taken Mr. Erveng to the train drove
up to the door, and with an exclamation of pleasure Hilliard started
forward to meet the lady and young girl who were getting out of it.
They were Mrs. Endicott and her daughter Alice, relatives of the
Ervengs, and they had come to stay with them while some repairs were
being made to their own house, which was farther along the beach.
It was _such_ a relief to see a girl again; and she turned out to be
just as nice as she could be. She and Hilliard are cousins, but she
isn't at all like him in any way. In the first place, she is splendid
looking,--tall and strong, and the picture of health, with the most
beautiful colour in her cheeks; and she is so jolly and full of fun
that we got on famously together.
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