[Miss Billy's Decision by Eleanor H. Porter]@TWC D-Link bookMiss Billy's Decision CHAPTER XIX 14/18
Doubtless he was on his way there now. He was very near by this time, and Billy held her breath suspended. There was a chance, of course, that he might not notice her; and Billy was counting on that chance--until a gust of wind whirled a loose half-sheet of newspaper from the hands of the man in front of her, and naturally attracted Bertram's eyes to its vicinity--and to hers.
The next moment he was at her side and his dumfounded but softly-breathed "_Billy!_" was in her ears. Billy bubbled into low laughter--there were such a lot of funny situations in the world, and of them all this one was about the drollest, she thought. "Yes, I know," she gurgled.
"You don't have to say it-your face is saying even more than your tongue _could!_ This is just for a girl I know.
I'm keeping her place." Bertram frowned.
He looked as if he were meditating picking Billy up and walking off with her. "But, Billy," he protested just above his breath, "this isn't sugarplums nor frosting; it's plain suicide--standing out in this wind like this! Besides--" He stopped with an angrily despairing glance at her surroundings. "Yes, I know," she nodded, a little soberly, understanding the look and answering that first; "it isn't pleasant nor comfortable, in lots of ways--but _she's_ had it all the morning.
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