"I don't know what to answer, as would depend partly upon circumstances But, Sally, dear, please don't get yourself into any difficulty. You have been through a trying winter with me and are here by the blue lagoon for a holiday."
Sally shook her head.
"I'll do my best to avoid it."
A few moments before lunch Sally discovered Dan Webster alone on the front porch and went toward him in her sweetest and most friendly fashion.
"It is nice to find you by yourself, Dan. You said last night that I had been avoiding you, which was not exactly true. I have had something on my mind and it is hard, as you know, at a house party, to slip away from the others."
Dan laughed.
"Yes, Sally, but it is the very fact of your slipping away from the others that I did object to. Had you gone with me I might have felt differently."
Sally put out her hand, catching at her companion's coat sleeve.
"Promise me, Dan, that if I do something you don't like, you won't be angry? You might have a little faith in me!"
Dan shook his head.