And if--if she goes I can't very well follow her, can I, Mac ?" For a space old Donald was silent.

Then he said, "You're thinkin' of me, Johnny, an' what we was planning on ?" "Partly." "Then don't any more.

I'll stick to you, an' we'll stick to her.

Only----" "What ?" "If you could get Peggy Blackton to help you----" "You mean----" began Aldous eagerly.
"That if Peggy Blackton got her to stay for a week--mebby ten days--visitin' her, you know, it wouldn't be so bad if you told her then, would it, Johnny ?" "By George, it wouldn't!" "And I think----" "Yes----" "Bein' an old man, an' seein' mebby what you don't see----" "Yes----" "That she'd take you, Johnny." In his breast John's heart seemed suddenly to give a jump that choked him.
And while he stared ahead old Donald went on.
"I've seen it afore, in a pair of eyes just like her eyes, Johnny--so soft an' deeplike, like the sky up there when the sun's in it.

I seen it when we was ridin' behind an' she looked ahead at you, Johnny.