Of course she wanted to go. Jinnie felt that if she knew she was going with him, she’d fly to the sky and back again.
“Yes,” she murmured. “I’d like to go, but I couldn’t—for lots of reasons!... Lafe wouldn’t let me for one, and then Bobbie needs me awfully.”
They started on, and Jinnie could see Lafe’s window, but not the cobbler himself.
“But I’d bring you back at dusk,” Theodore assured her, “and you’d be happy––”
“Happy! Happy!” she breathed, with melting eyes. “I’d be more’n happy, but I can’t go.”
Theodore raised his hat quickly and left her without another word.