"Nothing, except give her a bit of a holiday," he said.
"I saw you go off with her that morning." She smiled and her eyes became a little more friendly.

"She wrote me a letter from your place and said she'd found out what song writers meant by the word heaven." "Did she ?" said Martin.

"I'm glad." It came to her in a flash that her little pal had fallen in love with this boy and instantly she understood the mystery of Tootles' change of method and point of view--her moping, her relaxed grip on life.

She meant almost nothing to the boy and knew it.
"But don't you think you might have been to see her since you brought her back ?" she asked.
"I've been very worried," said Martin simply.
"Is that so ?" and then, after another pause, this girl said a second astonishing thing.

"I wish I didn't see in you a man who tells the truth.