What have you been talking about all the evening ?" An observant younger brother is a difficult factor in a love affair.
Two days passed.

Clover looked in vain for a note from the High Valley to say how Clarence had borne the revelation; and she grew more nervous with every hour.

It was absolutely necessary now to dismantle the house, and she found a certain relief in keeping exceedingly busy.

Somehow the break-up had lost its inexplicable pain, and a glad little voice sang all the time at her heart, "I shall come back; I shall certainly come back.
Papa will let me, I am sure, when he knows Geoff, and how nice he is." She was at the dining-table wrapping a row of books in paper ready for packing, when a step sounded, and glancing round she saw Clarence himself standing in the doorway.

He did not look angry, as she had feared he might, or moody; and though he avoided her eye at first, his face was resolute and kind.
"Geoff has told me," were his first words.