"What have I done. What have I done?" David moaned softly as he sat with his head in his hands in the parlor.
Alice didn't say anything. What could she say. David and Neil were the one who unknowing tore Christy's heart to piece in which caused her to faint just moments ago.
"You and Neil are so dumb." Margaret hissed at David's bent heads. She shook her head from one side to another. "Christy is so weak. Only an weak woman would faint having two men after her heart."
"Shut thee mouth Margaret." Alice finally said to her daughter. She said in lowly but with enough force to have her command obeyed.
Margaret looked over at her mother and read what was written on Alice's face. *She loves Christy more than me. That rich upstart took my place in MY mother's and MY husbands heart.* Her heart harden against Christy Huddleson like never before.
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"Christy please come to Christy." Neil said softly over Christy's head. He checked her pupils and saw that they were still not dilated. "Please Christy come to. I'm sorry for causing this. I shouldn't have made so much trouble for you to making up your mind and heart." He blamed himself fully for what was happing to Christy; the woman who had his heart in her hand.
Margaret had snuck out of the parlor when no one was looking and made her way up to Christy's room. She wasn't in her right mind all she knew was she had to tell Miss. Huddleson off good and final. But when she reached the slightly open door to her bedroom she saw Neil leaning over her checking her pulse and her pupils and she heard what he said to her. *He's in love with her. I don't recall ever having him look at me the way he looks at her.* Something stilled in her heart an softness. She tried desperately to harden her heart against this woman who stole her mother and husband's love for her; but she knew in the deepest ridges of her heart that it was SHE; Margaret who did it all on her own. She shook her head and made her way downstairs again.
Not realizing that he had an eyewitness Neil contiuned to minterstal his love to Christy in the only way he knew how. He took care of her and tried desperately to get her to come to.
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Once downstairs Margaret peeked into the parlor and saw her mother on her knees at David's side and was conformation him as an mother to her son. *Even Revered Grantland is more of an son to my mother than I'm an daughter to her. I'm her natural born daughter while Christy and David are not. Mother hasn't even adopted them legally and still she considers them and Neil as her own flesh and blood. While I ruined it and am an stranger to her.* Margaret left the mission house and decided to leave the cove and to never come back.