She had been ready to be very angry, but the suddenness and depth of his contrition had disarmed her.

It took all the force out of her indignation to see that he actually seemed to have a deeper sense of the enormity of his act than she herself had.

And when, after they had rejoined the party, she saw that, instead of taking part in the sports, he kept aloof, wandering aimless and disconsolate by himself among the pines, she took compassion on him and sent some one to tell him she wanted him to come and push her in the swing.

People had kissed her before.

She was not going to leave the first person who had seemed to fully realize the importance of the proceeding to suffer unduly from a susceptibility which did him so much credit.