63/74 "I shall never let you go," he repeated. "I've done it, I've done it!" she joyously cried to Vanderbank; "he likes me, or at least he can bear me--I've found him the way; and now I don't care even if he SAYS I haven't." Then she turned again to her old friend. "We can manage about Nanda--you needn't ever see her. She's 'down' now, but she can go up again. We can arrange it at any rate--c'est la moindre des choses." "Upon my honour I protest," Mr.Cashmore exclaimed, "against anything of the sort! I defy you to 'arrange' that young lady in any such manner without also arranging ME. |