27/37 Do you remember how, in the old days, I sometimes danced for joy? "You have no right to question me in this way," she said. "I think I have been very good in bearing with you so long." But she laid aside her indignation at once; he was so old a friend, the sincerity of him had been so often tried. "If you must know, David," she said, with a girlish frankness that became her better, "I am not engaged to be married. And I must tell you nothing more," she added, shutting her mouth decisively. |