"Of course!" In spite of herself she was assuming a certain proprietorship in Mr.Cannon.
"I'm so glad!" Janet replied.

"It is good of you!" "It seems to me it's you that's good, Janet," Hilda said grimly.

She thought: "Should _I_, out of simple kindliness and charity, have deliberately come to tell a man I didn't know...

that his sister was starving?
Never!" "He's bound to see after it!" said Janet, content.
"Why, of course!" said Hilda, clinching the affair, in an intimate, confidential murmur.
"You'll tell him to-night ?" Hilda nodded.
They exchanged a grave glance of mutual appreciation and understanding.
Each was sure of the other's high esteem.

Each was glad that chance had brought about the meeting between them.