"I'm not sure at all."
"No, but Freddy, listen—it's important. You told me yourself that she—I want the very identical words she used."
Freddy reflected.
"She said she was almost sorry she hadn't accepted that silly doctor!"
"That doesn't seem much, does it?" I remarked gloomily.
"Oh, from Eleanor it does, Ezra. She said it quite seriously. She always hides her feelings under a veil of sarcastic humor, you know."
"You're certainly a very difficult family to marry," I said.
"Being an orphan—" she began.
"Well, I'm going to find that Jones if I—"
"Ezra, dear boy, you're crazy. How could you think for a moment that—"