"I'm glad," said Jerry, smiling.
"Ye're glad it's goin' to seem like a life-time?"
"No, no!" he corrected her hastily; "I am glad you're going to stay."
"Well, that's a comfort anyway. Some one'll be pleased at me stayin'." And she came down the stairs and walked over to the piano again.
Jerry followed her:
"I am—immensely."
"All right Ye've said it!" replied Peg, looking up and finding him standing beside her. She moved away from him. Again he followed her:
"And will you look on me as your friend?"
This time she turned away abruptly. She did not like being followed about by a man she had only just met.
"There's time enough for that," she said, and went across to the windows.