"I take it for granted that our understanding is as delightfully thorough as it has always been--a warm, cordial intimacy which leaves us perfectly unembarrassed--perfectly free to express our affection for each other without fear of being misunderstood." The girl lifted her blue eyes: "Of course." "That's what I told Lily," he nodded, delighted.

I told her that you and I understood each other--that it was silly of her to suspect anything sentimental in our comradeship; that whenever the real thing put in an appearance and came tagging down the pike after you, you'd sink the gaff into him--" "The--what ?" "Rope him and paste your monogram all over him." "I certainly will," she said, laughing.

Eyes and lips and voice were steady; but the tumult in her brain confused her.
"That is exactly what I told Lily," he said.

"She seems to think that if two people frankly enjoy each other's society they want to marry each other.

All married women are that way.