"Here?
You say she's here ?" Then she heard Bertram's quick step on the stairs.

The next minute, very quietly, he came to her door.
"Ho!" he ejaculated gayly, as she rose to receive his kiss.

"I thought I'd find you asleep, when you didn't hear my ring." Billy reddened a little.
"Oh, no, I wasn't asleep." "But you didn't hear--" Bertram stopped abruptly, an odd look in his eyes.

"Maybe you did hear it, though," he corrected.
Billy colored more confusedly.

The fact that she looked so distressed did not tend to clear Bertram's face.
"Why, of course, Billy, I didn't mean to insist on your coming to meet me," he began a little stiffly; but Billy interrupted him.
"Why, Bertram, I just love to go to meet you," she maintained indignantly.