‘Well, at all events I can trust you, then, not to betray me to them.’ She points to the late temple of her tears.
‘You can trust me for that or anything else in the wide world,’ says Crosby.
He takes up Bonnie again, and they go slowly back to the others.
CHAPTER XXIV.
‘So bright a tear in Beauty’s eye,
Love half regrets to kiss it dry.’
As Susan appears, the guilty ones upon the tennis-ground move simultaneously towards her, Betty with a shy little rush, and holding out to her her racket.
‘Come and have another game, Susan, and you, too, Mr. Crosby.’
‘Yes, do,’ says Carew. ‘Tea will be here in a moment.’ He evidently holds this out as an inducement to Crosby to remain. Mr. Fitzgerald nobly backs him up.
‘Also Aunt Jemima!’ he says enthusiastically.