"If we can go to tea with Miss Verney," said Guy, "we shall be able to go for a walk. And I never see you alone in the Rectory."
"I'll ask Mother," said Pauline.
"You want to come?"
"Of course. Of course."
"You see," said Guy. "It's one of the places where I nearly told you I loved you. And it wouldn't be fair not to tell you there, as soon as I can."
In the Rectory everybody was anxious to know how Guy liked Pauline's Miss Verney.
"Margaret, you are really unkind to laugh at her," protested Pauline. "Guy understands, if you don't, how frightfully sympathetic she is. She is one of the people who really understands about being in love."
Margaret laughed.
"Don't I?" she said.
"No, indeed, Margaret, sometimes I don't think you do," said Pauline.