“Then you may do mine for me. I shall need it if I stay here long enough.”
“Boarding house life is a miserable parody on home, I know. But we can stand most anything for a while if the incentive is great enough.”
“All these looking-glasses keep me tangled. I seem to be going towards myself, from myself, beside myself, but I have been fortunate a part of the time. Two young men on the train gave me addresses of nice places to board when they found that I was alone and a stranger to the city.”
Instinctively Glenn frowned. “Have you got them?”
“I saved them to show you.” Taking them from her purse, she handed him the cards.
“You don’t want them,” he said, crushing the cards in his hand.
“Did they ask permission to call?”
“One did. He wanted to come with me from the station. I didn’t care to be bothered when I was thinking of seeing you. My! how I dreaded to see you, though I believe if I hadn’t very soon I’d have started back South,” she said in her effusive way. “I was afraid the change I’d find in you would be disappointing.”
“Was it?” he asked quickly.
“Yes, because it is for the better. I didn’t want to care as I used to in the old days.” She was still childish enough to be honest.