When she mentioned her farewell of Sunday night, a queer smile swept over his face and instantly disappeared.
"I should thing any girl might be permitted that much, in saying a final good-bye to a man who had shown her a fine time for weeks," he commented casually.
"But I didn't know I was saying good-bye," explained Kate.

"I expected him back in a week, and that I would then arrange to marry him.

That was the agreement we made then." As she began to speak, George Holt's face flashed triumph at having led her on; at what she said it fell perceptibly, but he instantly controlled it and said casually: "In any event, it was your own business." "It was," said Kate.

"I had given no man the slightest encouragement, I was perfectly free.

John Jardine was courting me openly in the presence of his mother and any one who happened to be around.