Sidney did not laugh at her girlish infatuation, she kissed her tenderly.
"We will write to each other, and you must come and stop with us next time you visit this part."
For an instant Gavine looked as if she were about to say something; then she checked herself, and it remained unsaid.
Yet, as she went down the drive a few minutes later, she murmured to herself:
"I wonder if she guesses. I could not tell her my fears, for, after all, I may be mistaken, and I am not the one to talk of my own mother."
[CHAPTER XIII]
THE MAJOR'S NEWS
THE very next day Jockie burst in upon Sidney like a whirlwind.
"Oh, Miss Urquhart, haven't you a contempt for women who scratch each other? Mrs. Norman and I have been doing it with smiling faces, and I feel disgusted with myself, and yet I would do it again gladly if she were here to provoke me. Do let me confess to you. First of all, of course, you know that the Major and she are on the eve of making their engagement known?"
"Oh, Jockie!"