"You're thanking me!"
He bent and kissed her.
"I'm jealous," Mark Yovil said sadly, as he entered the room. "He isn't half so nice as I am, Sheila Pat! You ask my mother. She's down in Devonshire, but we could send her a wire. And you've never been his Social Prompter, have you? Please send him away, Sheila Pat!"
"I will, anyway," Nell laughed.
Mark Yovil only stayed a few minutes. He looked at the Atom's excited face, her bright eyes, and talked quietly to Nell. Then he went.
For a quarter of an hour Sheila Pat studied her precious book.
Then Sarah appeared with a petition from Herr Schmidt for just a "beep at the little Miss Sheila."
He came in, laboriously tiptoeing, beaming.
"Ze poor little invalid! You are better, hein?"
Sheila Pat was very tired.