She lay quite still for a moment, but her white eyelids fell slowly to hide her eyes from mine.
"Thank heaven you are safe!" I murmured. "How could you frighten me so?"
She withdrew herself gently from my arms and rose. Her hat was on my desk, between the inkstand and the mucilage. She picked it up and proceeded to stab it to her head.
"I must have fallen asleep," she murmured, keeping her downcast eyes from me. "I just came in to say good-bye, and I waited, and told Mr. Fellows he could leave the door unlocked, because I was sure you would come, and I was so tired,--"
"Good-bye indeed! Where do you think you are going?"
"I am going back to Miss Elwood's School," she said, with the gentle inflexibility I always enjoyed. "I seem to do nothing but get into trouble when I am away from there. I didn't tell anyone but Minnie, because I didn't want to have to argue about it, but I thought I ought to say good-bye to you,--"
"I am glad you remembered to be polite to me," I said, getting possession of her hands, "because I have a lot of things to tell you. That is,--if you will promise to marry me first!"
"Don't!" she said, breathlessly, drawing away. "You--forget!"
"Forget what?"
"The other girl!"