Frank 's presence of mind had returned to him . He knew all about Rachel and her father . She had told him everything . `` I 'll go after her , '' he said gently . `` Get me my hat and coat . I 'll slip down the back stairs and over to the Cove . '' `` You must get out of the pantry window , then , '' said Mrs. Spencer firmly , mingling comedy and tragedy after her characteristic fashion . `` The kitchen is full of women . I wo n't have this known and talked about if it can possibly be helped . '' The bridegroom , wise beyond his years in the knowledge that it was well to yield to women in little things , crawled obediently out of the pantry window and darted through the birch wood . Mrs. Spencer had stood quakingly on guard until he had disappeared . So Rachel had gone to her father ! Like had broken the fetters of years and fled to like . `` It is n't much use fighting against nature , I guess , '' she thought grimly . `` I 'm beat . He must have thought something of her , after all , when he sent her that teapot and letter . And what does he mean about the ` day they had such a good time ' ? Well , it just means that she 's been to see him before , sometime , I suppose , and kept me in ignorance of it all . '' Mrs. Spencer shut down the pantry window with a vicious thud . `` If only she 'll come quietly back with Frank in time to prevent gossip I 'll forgive her , '' she said , as she turned to the kitchen .
Rachel was sitting on her father 's knee , with both her white arms around his neck , when Frank came XXXXX .
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