She pointed an accusing spoon at her before putting it back in her mouth.
"What about Phil Tremont, I'd like to know! He saved her from an Indian once, A.O., out on the desert.

It was dreadfully romantic.

And when he was best man at Eugenia Forbes's wedding, and Mary was flower girl, Mary got the shilling that was in the bride's cake.

It was an old English shilling, coined in the reign of Bloody Mary, with Philip's and Mary's heads on it.

That is a sure sign they were meant for each other.