“If we get out all right, I shall not forget this,” she said, her voice assuming genuine earnestness. “It was a brave and noble thing for you to do; but, do you know, I was sure you would do it.”
“You were?”
“Yes.”
“Why so?”
“I saw it in your face the moment I looked at you. Your face told me you would not hesitate at danger.”
“I saw your friend, Mr. Jones, did not intend to——”
“Don’t mention him! Why, father actually wants me to marry him; but now I never will—never in the world!”
Frank could not blame her. Indeed, he thought that, had not the man declined to leap into the lake to her rescue, he was not the kind of a man to become the husband of such a girl.
“I’m not going to marry at all!” she declared. “Of course, I may be drowned, and that will settle it. But I’m not going to marry, if I am not drowned. Two-thirds of the girls cannot get the one they really want, and so they take the best they can get. If I can’t get the one I want, I won’t have anybody.”