"Meaning she hasn't said a positive yes?"
"Meaning that, if you like."
"Then it's fair field and no favor! We're too good friends to misunderstand, but let's call it a case of may the best man win."
"All right, but I'll win and you can be best man at the wedding, how's that?" Peter's eyes shone with good humor, and his happy face left Blair little room for doubt as to Peter's own view of the case. What Carly herself thought was another matter.
But the two were too good friends to quarrel, and moreover, each knew the other too well to mistrust him for a minute. It would, indeed, be a fair field where they were concerned.
"I didn't know you'd gone so far," said Blair, ruefully, "of course, there's no chance for me."
"I hope not," returned Peter, cheerfully. "But when we get back we'll soon find out."
"Perhaps find out that she's 'gone with a handsomer man,'" suggested Blair.
"Not impossible. I suppose there are such."