"Are you sure?" he asked.
She nodded with set lips.
"How d'you know?"
"I saw it in his eyes."
The young man was genuinely moved.
"Poor beggar!" he said.
CHAPTER XXII
Ragamuffin
The little affair of Joses was one of the many trifles that made for intimacy between the young man and the girl.
In spite of herself Boy found her opposition dying away. Indeed, she could no more resist him than she could resist the elements. She might put her umbrella up, but that did not stop the rain. And if the rain chose to go on long enough, the umbrella would wear away. The choice lay with the rain and not with the umbrella.