“You’ll have to some day. You’re not going to marry Phil, you know.”
“No, I’m not going to marry Phil. I know that now. I haven’t proposed to him for at least a month—and then he was quite impolite—rude, in fact.” She sighed. “Oh, I don’t care, but I don’t want Jane Loring to marry him.”
“She’s not likely to. She’s as hopelessly stubborn as you are.”
Nellie Pennington waited a moment, and then with a laugh, “Nina, you’ve enjoyed yourself immensely, haven’t you? Jane is such an innocent. I’d give worlds to know what you said to her!”
Nina laughed. “Would you?”
“Yes, do tell me.”
“I will. It’s very amusing. She expected me to lie, of course. So I simply told her the truth.”
“And she believed——”
“The opposite.”
“Of course.”