"Yes?" with a note of interrogation.
"In which direction would it lead us, if we should take it now?"
"To the parsonage, eventually, but," hesitatingly, "by a much longer way than by the path through the hedge."
"The longer, the better—for me."
"I don't know what they will think has become of us," she demurred.
Farr laughed easily.
"I never trouble myself too much about what people think."
"I don't doubt that you are in no way different from the rest of your sex. I believe it is generally conceded that selfishness is its salient characteristic."
"A popular fallacy. Do I not prove it to you, Miss Jean?"
"Oh, of course you are the exception that proves the rule," she returned with gentle sarcasm.