She felt him kissing her hair . `` There , run along , little girl . Good-by , '' he said gently . `` Why do n't you ask me to come and see you again ? '' cried Rachel , half in tears . `` I 'm coming ANYHOW . '' `` If you can come , COME , '' he said . `` If you do n't come , I shall know it is because you ca n't -- and that is much to know . I 'm very , very , VERY glad , little woman , that you have come once . '' Rachel was sitting demurely on the skids when her companions came back . They had not seen her leaving the house , and she said not a word to them of her experiences . She only smiled mysteriously when they asked her if she had been lonesome . That night , for the first time , she mentioned her father 's name in her prayers . She never forgot to do so afterwards . She always said , `` bless mother -- and father , '' with an instinctive pause between the two names -- a pause which indicated new realization of the tragedy which had sundered them . And the tone in which she said `` father '' was softer and more tender than the one which voiced `` mother . '' Rachel never visited the Cove again . Isabella Spencer discovered that the children had been there , and , although she knew nothing of Rachel 's interview with her father , she told the child that she must never again go to that part of the shore . Rachel shed many a bitter tear in secret over this command ; but she obeyed it . Thenceforth there had been no communication between her and her father , save the unworded messages of soul to soul across whatever may divide them .
David Spencer 's invitation XXXXX his daughter 's wedding was sent with the others , and the remaining days of Rachel 's maidenhood slipped away in a whirl of preparation and excitement in which her mother reveled , but which was distasteful to the girl .
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