I would have met you at the station if you had mentioned the train.

Oh, but--how silly!--I shouldn't have known you.' Miss Derrick laughed, and seemed of a sudden much more at ease.
'Oh, I like you for that!' she exclaimed mirthfully.

'It's just the kind of thing I say myself sometimes.

And I'm so glad to see that you are--you mustn't be offended--I mean you're not the kind of person to be afraid of.' They laughed together.

Emmeline could not subdue her delight when she found that the girl really might be accepted as a lady.