"We have talked it all over," said the radiant Jeanie. "He won't stop my going to Germany, but he will be there too, and—in fact he wants us to be married at once. He says he has waited long enough, and of course it must be just as he likes."
"Mother won't like it at once," said Maud.
Jeanie raised her head defiantly, she belonged to Frank now.
"Mother is my mother, so I won't say anything except to you, Maud, but she was the cause of all my great misery, and nothing will make me go against Frank again. Is there another man on earth who would have forgiven me as he has done? The least I can do is to——"
"Let him have his own way entirely," laughed Maud. "Edward Lang says his wife shall do exactly as she likes! How I wish Toney would say yes!"
"Toney!—Edward Lang!" said Jeanie astonished. "Oh, that would be odd, almost ridiculous, besides, he's so extravagant everybody says."
"Everybody says it and that helps him on. I told him he could marry nobody if he went on as he is doing."
"You told him that, Maud?"
"Yes; I do want to help Toney, and of course she has too much sense to marry a man like that, though I believe he could make a woman happy!"
"No, not Toney, they have nothing in common."