"But I told our old friend that if—well, if, you understand—I should insist on everything you had being settled on yourself."
"You and Lady Elspeth seem to have discussed matters pretty freely," she said, with a laugh.
"She's the dearest old lady in the world, and delights in mothering me. She got me in a corner that afternoon, and taxed me with coming to her house for reasons other than simply to see herself——"
"And you——?"
"I had to own up, of course, and then she crushed me by telling me that you were an heiress, and that Mr. Pixley probably had views of his own concerning you."
"Which he had, but they happened not to coincide with mine, and so I came to Sark."
"Happy day! I see you yet, standing in the hedge by the Red House, and I believing you a vision."
"I could hardly believe my eyes either. You seemed to come jumping right out of the sky."
"I jumped right into heaven—the highest jump that ever was made."
"I was a bit put out at first, you know——"