Lydia selected from this the fact that hit her hardest.
"Is Alston Choate in love with Esther?"
"He thinks he is."
"Then I must tell Anne."
"For God's sake, no! Lydia, I'm talking to you down here in the dusk as if you were the sky or that star up there. The star doesn't tell."
"But Anne worships him."
"Do you mean she's in love with Choate?"
"No," said Lydia, "I don't mean that. I mean she thinks he's the most beautiful person she ever saw."
"Then let her keep on thinking so," said Jeff. "And sometime he'll think that of her."
Lydia was indignant.