Diana is the only one I'd want to tell, and, even if I hadn't sworn secrecy to Jane, I can't tell Diana things now.

She tells everything to Fred--I know she does.

Well, I've had my first proposal.

I supposed it would come some day--but I certainly never thought it would be by proxy.

It's awfully funny--and yet there's a sting in it, too, somehow." Anne knew quite well wherein the sting consisted, though she did not put it into words.