"You didn't tell him to his face, Toney?"
"Why not? It's much better to be honest about it, and besides I put it gingerly. I told him it couldn't be that. But I did bless you when you shouted for me, couldn't have found anything else to say, either of us, not for anything! so I just ran!" Sir Evas laughed till the tears ran down his face.
"Edward Lang won't forgive you in a hurry, besides, I daresay he does like you, and he's not half a bad fellow, only rather extravagant, and given to—— Ehem——"
"That's it, he wants to pay his bills, that shows he's honest, anyhow, doesn't it? but I haven't as much liking for him as I have for Jim. That can't be love, can it, uncle?"
"I should surmise not."
"But you might know, because you once made love, didn't you?"
"Ye-es—but it was different. We weren't romantic in those days."
They went on in silence for a little while, then Toney remarked,
"Do you know, Uncle Evas, you might have told me about a pretty romance going on near us."
"Whose, Toney?"