“It means that I’m happy—happy! I’m the happiest girl in the world!”
“Happy? Now? Because I kissed you, when you’re engaged to George?”
It was her turn to stare blankly.
“Engaged to George?” she said.
I stammered brokenly a flood of words.
“He said you’d come to an understanding—that everything was all right—and as it should be.”
“That’s true. Oh, that’s very true!”
“That you’d opened your heart to him.”
“I did—I did!”
“And—and I knew by the look in his eyes as well as his saying so that you had come to an understanding.”