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MRS. PENNIMAN told Catherine that evening-the two ladies were sitting in the back parlour-that she had had an interview with Morris Townsend; and on receiving this news the girl started with a sense of pain. She felt angry for the moment; it was almost the first time she had ever felt angry. It seemed to her that her aunt was meddlesome; and from this came a vague apprehension that she would spoil something.
"I don't see why you should have seen him. I don't think it was right," Catherine said.