“I do, too, and I’m ashamed of my doubts and fears.”
“Oh, that’s all right, he’ll never know.”
“Yes, he will, I shall tell him. And maybe he’ll be so disappointed in me, and so hurt, that——”
“That he’ll break off the engagement! Oh, yes! Oh, certainly! Patty, you are a goose, and always will be! Never let him know what a goose you are, or he sure will throw you over!”
“Oh, I guess not!” Patty smiled happily.
“Well, when is the day? What did he say?”
“I wouldn’t say positively,—but, oh, Bumble, he’s so impatient!”
“Of course he is! Any real lover would be, and especially any one who is expecting to marry Patty Fairfield!”
CHAPTER XIII
AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT
Patty was walking up and down the library, waiting for Little Billee. He had written and he had telegraphed and he had telephoned, and every message changed or contradicted the previous one, and Patty was nervous.