I positively gasped.
“O! if that’s your view! But, anyhow, she was seeming to accept mine, when the infant hailed her, and she left me, and I bolted. You put too much upon me—really you do, Val; and here’s the sequel. Ten minutes ago she appeared in this room and told me that she had discovered the reason—the real one this time.”
“And it was?”
“The baby—no less.”
“What! Does she——?”
“I don’t know from Adam. I was thinking over my answer; and when I looked up, she was gone.”
“And you gave her no reply?”
“O yes! I told her I entirely agreed with her. I had to be honest.”
“Verender! You must come with me!”
“Go with you!”