"A thunderclap, Mary!"
"Well;—yes. I wasn't quite sure at first. You might have been laughing at me;—mightn't you?"
"Just the kind of joke for me!"
"How was I to understand it all in a moment? And you made me repeat all those words. I believed it then, or I shouldn't have said them. I knew that must be serious." And so she deified him, and sat at his feet looking up into his eyes, and fooled him for a while into the most perfect happiness that a man ever knows in this world. But she was not altogether happy herself till she had got Larry to come to her at the house at Bragton and swear to her that he would be her friend.