12/18 "If you simply will not take my ticket this afternoon, you _must_ do this. Go to some restaurant near here and get a good luncheon--something that will sustain you. I will take your place here." "_Miss Neilson!_" Billy smiled radiantly. It was the first time she had ever seen Alice Greggory's haughtily cold reserve break into anything like naturalness--the astonished incredulity of that "Miss Neilson!" was plainly straight from the heart; so, too, were the amazed words that followed. |