10/25 You're so wonderfully young, my dear!" "I don't think eighteen is so young. My mother was married before she was twenty." He sat silent for a few seconds, and she felt his hand shut more firmly on hers. Then he got up, and, pulling a chair to the opposite side of the table, said briskly: "And now give me some tea. I haven't had any lunch." "Oh, why not ?" She blew her nose, tucked away her handkerchief, and began her operations on the tea-tray. |