3/21 She would have described him as "altogether quite stunning-looking"; and she liked his tall, dark thinness, his gray clothes, his soft hat, and his clean brown shoes; she liked his easy swing of the stick he carried. "Would you rather not be taken for a Spanish countess ?" "That isn't it," she explained. "You said----" "I said I'd take you for whatever you wanted me to. Isn't that all right ?" "It would all depend, wouldn't it ?" "Of course it would depend on what you wanted." "Oh, no!" she laughed. "It might depend on a lot of things." "Such as ?" "Well----" She hesitated, having the mischievous impulse to say, "Such as Mildred!" But she decided to omit this reference, and became serious, remembering Russell's service to her at Mildred's house. |