“But you needn’t have said so—needn’t have put it that way.”

“Oh!” He seemed to be considering quite a new point of view.

“Not that I’m offended. I only point it out for your good. You expect people to be too much like you. The rest of us have feelings——”

“I’ve feelings, Wynne,” he interrupted quickly.

“Fancies——”

“Ah, well—perhaps those too, sometimes.”

“Fears——”

He squeezed my arm. “You’ve struck me the right morning,” he said.

“Think what you’re asking of—the person we mean.”

“She’s to give me her answer after lunch to-day.”