17/23 "And I thought of you when I was out there in the rose garden waiting to come in here." "You did ?" she said, drawing in her breath. A wave of delicate pink color came up to her very eyes, it seemed to him as quickly and as innocently as when she was a girl. "And what DID you think, Klarns," she half whispered--"tell me." He did not speak, but answered her blue eyes and then her lips, as her arms slipped quite naturally around his neck. He had found, after his return from Fair Plains, that his host had an early engagement at Santa Inez, and he had insisted upon rising to see him off. |