He kissed her.
"We're engaged," he said to Mary.
What Mary said in answer, she couldn't remember herself when she tried to recall it later, for a strange thought had leaped into her mind, driving out everything else.
"I almost hate to ask," she thought.

"It would be too dreadful to know." But curiosity has always been one of mankind's fateful gifts, and at the breakfast table next morning, Mary had Wally to herself.
"Oh, Wally," she said.

"What did the garage man find was the trouble with your car ?" "The simplest thing imaginable," he said.

"One of the wires leading to the switch on the instrument board had worked loose--that awful road, you know." "I knew it," Mary quietly told herself, and in her mind she again saw Helen demonstrating how to quell the wildest car on earth.

Mary ought to have stopped there, but a wicked imp seemed to have taken possession of her.
"Did Helen cry, when she saw how late it was getting ?" "She did at first," he said, looking very solemn, "but when I told her--" His confessions were interrupted by Hutchins, who whispered to Mary that she was wanted on the telephone.
"It's Mr.Forbes," he said.
Archey's voice was ringing with excitement when he greeted Mary over the wire.
"Can you come down to the office early this morning ?" he asked.
"What's the matter ?" "I just found out that the rest of the men had a meeting last night--and they voted to strike.