"I was waiting for you on the verandah a little while ago, and--and he went by with Rose and never glanced my way.

All because--because--oh, I am a little fool!" she declared, with an angry stamp of the foot as she walked.
"He's the fool!" said Scott rather shortly.

"I shouldn't bother myself over that if I were you." "I can't help it," said Dinah, her voice squeaking on a note half-indignant, half-piteous.

"I--I behaved so idiotically, just like a raw schoolgirl.

And I hate myself for it now!" Scott looked at her for the first time since the beginning of her confidences.