From that ride she came back to her grandmother with softly shining eyes and the sweet tale that has been told and told and told again since Time was young.... And—would her grandma be willing to give her to him?
"But, Bess, I thought you felt that you could never trust yourself to any man after Margaret's experience?"
Bess answered earnestly.
"Grandma! I wouldn't to anybody in the world but Mr. Harcourt. But it is different with him, you know."
When she was gone Mrs. Pennybacker took off her glasses and wiped them.
"As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end," she said reverently, "Amen."
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