"And something here said, 'Him for me!'"
He stooped and kissed her and, taking her hand, they sat side by side on the sofa together in the manner of all conventional lovers. Virginia, who had watched them with amusement, shook her head. Sadly she said:
"My heart never said anything like that to me."
"Then perhaps it won't be that way with you," said Jimmie. "Perhaps you'll learn to care for him by degrees like you would—say, for Mr. Stafford."
"Don't talk nonsense," cried Virginia.
"He's interested in you, and if you play your cards right—"
"I'm not going to play any cards."
"Let me tell you one thing," he said, rising and going to the table, "a chance like this don't come to one girl in a million."
"Please!—" exclaimed Virginia, putting up her hand to stop his talk.
But Jimmie was not so easily suppressed. Earnestly he went on: