The elevator was rushing down again in its perilous descent, and when its door flew open they saw Mrs. Overman Hodge-Lathrop come out of the car. Vernon rose hastily.
“There she is,” he said. “We mustn’t keep her waiting.”
Amelia rose, but she caught his hand and gave it a sudden pressure.
“But you haven’t answered my question,” she said, with a continuity of thought that was her final surprise for him. “Are you so very badly disappointed, after all?”
“Well, no,” he said. “I don’t think it would do. It would—well, it would complicate.”
Mrs. Hodge-Lathrop was standing in the door, peering impatiently into the dim little room. They started toward her.
“Anyway, dear heart,” Amelia whispered as they went, “remember this—that you did it all for me.”
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