You'll be out by that time.

Do you think I'm going to tell my mother now and have her stop it ?" "Oh, Marion, you know perfectly well that it won't do for a girl to ignore first principles.

I'm horribly afraid somebody will talk about you." "What would you do, then ?" "I ?" he asked, disturbed.

"What could I do ?" "Why, I suppose," she said slowly, "you'd have to marry me." "Then," he rejoined with a laugh, "I should think you'd be scared into prudence by the prospect." "I am not easily--scared," she said, looking down.
"Not at that prospect ?" he said jestingly.
She looked up at him; and he remembered afterward the poise of her small head, and the slow, clear colour mounting; remembered that it conveyed to him, somehow, a hint of courage and sincerity.
"I am not frightened," she said gravely.
Gravity fell upon him, too.

In this young girl's eyes there was no evasion.