"And I jumped from impulse. And,—I'm glad I did!"
"You little Love! Are you? Patty, how can you love a great, uncouth man like me?"
"You're not uncouth, Little Billee, and you only said that to be contradicted! But I do contradict it. You're not big and uncouth at all. Well, I s'pose you are big,—but it's a nice, cunning little bigness——"
"There, there, that'll be about all of that! Now, tell me why you ran away from me."
"I didn't know at the time. But I know now."
"You do? Why, then?
"Because I was in love with you, and I was afraid you'd find it out."
"But you didn't know it yourself?"
"N—no; that is, I wouldn't own up to it to myself, and I was awfully afraid myself would find it out."
"You little goose——"