‘You might allow me to explain myself just there,’ she coaxed; ‘and if you have told them all I was supposed to be thinking in Winchester or Salisbury or Oxford, why not tell them what I thought in Bath or Peterborough or Ely? It was awfully interesting!’
Jack Copley, too, clamoured to be heard still further on the subject of his true-love’s charms, so the author yielded to this twofold pressure, and added a few corroborative details.
The little courtship, running its placid course through sleepy cathedral towns, has not been altered in the least by these new pages. It is only as if [p ix] the story-teller, meeting a new pair of interested eyes, had almost unconsciously drifted into fresh confidences.
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN.
This is all quite true, and anyway we have said nothing that we are a bit ashamed of.
KITTY SCHUYLER.
X
JACK COPLEY.
Their mark.
London, July, 1901.