"Yes, I should. But there are such lots of different kinds of girls, Captain Holiday——"
"Of course, I don't see that."
"No. Because you're in love, you see, and people never do see more than just the one person then."
"I expect you're right again," said Captain Holiday. He looked down at me quite submissively—at me, to whom he'd laid down the law in that hectoring fashion every time he'd seen me! He might be right about cow-houses and the laws of gravity and about stock, as well as about any question in his own profession of soldiering—but at least he saw now that I could teach him something about the ways of human beings!
And I felt no longer a Land Girl who was still months away from earning her first stripe, but quite a woman of the world for once!
Encouragingly I went on:
"Perhaps she is the kind of girl who does mean 'Yes' all the time——"
"And didn't say so?"
"Because perhaps she put it off to make it seem all the more wonderful to you when it came," I suggested.
"Ah," he said. "It would be wonderful then?"