"Why, before—the day before it all happened. But since then I have felt, and I told him, that he belonged to you—I mean, dear, that it must be you now whom he must really love, and that I——"
Nellie was not listening.
"He told you before?" she asked in a low voice.
"Yes, the day before. But afterward——"
"You were actually engaged then?"
"Yes, we were."
"I never knew it. I didn't know that. Oh, how wicked I have been!"
"Wicked? What do you mean?" asked Janet, puzzled at her companion's strange behavior.
Nellie stood silent, and Janet went on.