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"Were you pleased with the nomination
and election of Catlin?"
"I was pleased at the election, but I should have preferred Porter."
"I thought you tried to prevent Porter's nomination?"
"That's what the papers said, but they didn't understand."
"I wasn't thinking of the papers. You know I heard your speech in the
convention."
"A great many people seem to have misunderstood me. I tried to make it
clear."
"Did you intend that the convention should laugh?"
"No. That surprised and grieved me very much!"
Miss De Voe gathered from this and from what the papers had said that it
must be a mortifying subject to Peter, and knew that she ought to
discontinue it. But she could not help saying, "Why?"
"It's difficult to explain, I'm afraid. I had a feeling that a man was
trying to do wrong, but I hoped that I was mistaken. It seemed to me
that circumstances compelled me to tell the convention all about it, but
I was very careful not to hint at my suspicion. Yet the moment I told
them they laughed.


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