Sibyl and Roscoe were upon the point of leaving when Bibbs returned to the New House.

He went straight to Sibyl and spoke to her quietly, but so that the others might hear.
"When you said that if I'd stop to think, I'd realize that no one would be apt to care enough about me to marry me, you were right," he said.

"I thought perhaps you weren't, and so I asked Miss Vertrees to marry me.
It proved what you said of me, and disproved what you said of her.

She refused." And, having thus spoken, he quitted the room as straightforwardly as he had entered it.
"He's SO queer!" Mrs.Sheridan gasped.

"Who on earth would thought of his doin' THAT ?" "I told you," said her husband, grimly.
"You didn't tell us he'd go over there and--" "I told you she wouldn't have him.