"Broke the engagement!" he exclaimed, almost roughly. "Why did he do that?"
She stood before him with her hands clasped and the clear-welled eyes meeting his bravely.
"Because I told him I could not marry him without first telling him that I loved you, Tom; that I had been loving you always and in spite of everything," she said.
And what more she said I do not know.
XXXVII
WHOSE YESTERDAYS LOOK BACKWARD
"Tom, isn't this the same foot-log you made me walk that day when you were trying to convince me that you were the meanest boy that ever breathed?" asked Ardea, gathering her skirts preparatory to the stream crossing.
"It is. But you didn't walk it, as you may remember: you fell off. Wait a second and give me those azaleas. I'll go first and take your hand."