“Yes, as if it was yesterday,” she answered.
“Do you apologize?”
“No,” she laughed.
“I think you poisoned the mind of the party of the second part. Confess if you did. I mean it; for if you didn’t, I’ve broken three engagements, and traveled all day for nothing.”
“Yes—I—did!” returned Betsy boldly.
“Do you apologize?”
“Not a bit of it.”
They looked at each other in the dusk. “Well, are you glad I came?”
“If you hadn’t, Mr. Irving,” replied Betsy slowly, “I don’t know but I’d ’a’ given back the silver!”
Irving pressed her hands and laughed.