"You know," stammered the girl, "that Millie thought you were in love with her. That would account for everything, wouldn't it?"
"But where did she ever get that idea!" he exclaimed, desperately.
"She says you tried to put your arm around her."
"Just to practice. Just to learn what love was like. I told you how ignorant I was, the same as I did her. Archie said she would show me, but it didn't amount to anything. It was only when I asked you, Daisy, that I began to understand. Do you remember how you stood on your toes and kissed me?"
The girl bade him be quiet and not get too reminiscent, but he would not.
"It taught me all I needed to know, in one instant," he persisted. "Ah, sweetheart, how much happiness and suffering I have had on your account!"
He stooped and kissed her tenderly as he spoke.
"And after this it will be happiness only," she whispered.
Another kiss answered this prediction.