"Then, then he'd see there was something else in the world. Then he would turn to me," said the girl to herself. She added, as every girl in love must add, "No one could care as I do."
And one day she found on the leaf of the tear-off calendar in her cottage bedroom a line of verse that seemed to have been written for her. It remained the whole of Browning as far as Gwenna Williams was concerned. And it said:
"What's Death? You'll love me yet!"
CHAPTER XVIII
THE OBVIOUS THING
She was in this mood to win a waiting game on the day that Paul Dampier came down to the Aircraft Works.
This was just one of the more wonderful happenings that waited round the corner and that the young girl might hope to encounter any day.
The first she knew of it was from hearing a remark of the Aeroplane Lady's to one of her French mechanics at the lathes.