But not too proud for that." "It's just her pride that has made her.

Chad," little Bilham loyally went on, "has really been as kind to her as possible.

It's awkward for a man when a girl's in love with him." "Ah but she isn't--now." Little Bilham sat staring before him; then he sprang up as if his friend's penetration, recurrent and insistent, made him really after all too nervous.

"No--she isn't now.

It isn't in the least," he went on, "Chad's fault.