"Perfectly sure," complacently.
"And you are not giving him up for my sake?"
"Child, I had never a thought of you when I gave him up. I did it because I loved somebody else, and that's all. I would never have done for Dick, anyway; but you, I think, will suit him exactly. I hope you will be very happy, I'm sure."
"Do you think his mother——?" anxiously.
"I'm sure of that, too," answered Josephine, reassuringly. "We are going to be great friends, I know."
"I never had a friend,—a girl friend, that is,"—returned Emily; "I have missed one so much. You can't confide everything to your grandfather and a sailor-man like Captain Barry, you know."
"I should think not," laughed Josephine. "And I shall be so glad to be friends with you."
"And are you sure you do not love Dick?" doubtfully.
"I am quite sure of it," decidedly.
"It is so very hard for me to believe that, you know; I do not see how you could help it," innocently.