"That's all very well, but I don't like him. And I believe he's in love with his cousin. He went quite white when you spoke about the engagement."
"Mother—how absurd you are. He's only seen her once——"
"Well, my dear, that's a book you ought to read; really, I haven't enjoyed anything so much for weeks. I simply——"
Up in her bedroom Lizzie flung wide her window and laughed at the golden moon. Then she lay, for hours, staring at the pale light that it flung upon her ceiling.
Oh! what a fool she was! But she was happy, happy, happy. And he needed someone to look after him—he did, indeed!