When Tommy saw so well through Aaron and David, through everyone he came in contact with, indeed, what hope could there be that he was deceived in Elspeth?
"And yet she knows what takes him there; she must know it!" she cried.
"A woman," Tommy said, "is never sure that a man is in love with her until he proposes.

She may fancy--but it is never safe to fancy, as so many have discovered." "She has no right," declared Grizel, "to wait until she is sure, if she does not care for him.

If she fears that he is falling in love with her, she knows how to discourage him; there are surely a hundred easy, kind ways of doing that." "Fears he is falling in love with her!" Tommy repeated.

"Is any woman ever afraid of that ?" He really bewildered her.

"No woman would like it," Grizel answered promptly for them all, because she would not have liked it.