"Oh, I've got past that," said the girl, with a misleading air of frankness.
"Well, I'm relieved to hear you say so. There's something about him very magnetic to my way of thinking—positively irresistible." She sighed again. "But he'd make a shocking bad husband, that's one comfort."
"Comfort!" Val laughed a little hysterically.
"Well, now, what have I said?"
But Val was hatted and gloved, and ran down-stairs. Ethan was smoking in the porch.
"Where are those funny friends of yours?" he said.
She was up in arms at once.
"You always say my friends are funny."
"And so they are, dear child."