15/18 I thought--" "Solution!" She blazed up now, tigerlike, and her words came through set lips. "I'd never have told you I knew, if you hadn't said what you have. But--a solution--a plan--a compromise! You ought to have played for me! You ought to have played for me; and you ought to have won--have won!" [Illustration: You ought to have played for me!] He stood before a woman new to him, one so different from the grateful and gracious enthusiast he had met all these months that he could not comprehend the change, could not at once adjust his confused senses. So miserable was he that suddenly, with one of her swift changes, she smiled at him, even through her sudden tears. |