“David.”
She spoke in a desperate tone, that caused him to glance keenly at her.
“If you have anything to tell,” he said quietly, “it’s a good plan to tell it at once.”
“Since you have been away Joe and Janey 170 have been together constantly. It seems to have been a case of mutual love. David, they are engaged.”
“So,” he said gravely, “I am to lose my little sister. Joe is a man in a thousand.”
“But, David, I had set my heart on Janey’s marrying you, from that very first day when you went to school together and you carried her books. Do you remember?”
“Yes,” he replied whimsically, “but even then Joe met us and took her away from me. But I must drive out and congratulate them.”
M’ri gazed after him in perplexity as he left the house.
“I wonder,” she mused, “if I ever quite understood David!”
Miss Rhody called to David as he was passing her house and bade him come in.