The others--all the others had been shams and make-believes and counterfeits.

To think that I ever thought those silly little episodes with Paul Mayhew and Freddy Small and Mr.Harold Hartshorn were love! Absurd! But now-- And so I walked and moved and breathed in this spell that had been cast upon me; and thought--little fool that I was!--that never had there been before, nor could there be again, a love quite so wonderful as ours.
At Newport Jerry decided that he wanted to be married right away.

He didn't want to wait two more endless years until I was graduated.

The idea of wasting all that valuable time when we might be together! And when there was really no reason for it, either--no reason at all! I smiled to myself, even as I thrilled at his sweet insistence.

I was pretty sure I knew two reasons--two very good reasons--why I could not marry before graduation.