Mr. Pease was the first to find her. “You here!” he exclaimed. “Well—I am—surprised—I mean I really am—do you know why I came to-day?”
Diana had no idea.
“Because I thought you weren’t here.”
There was a pause. “Why are you laughing, Miss Diana? I mean I came because you weren’t here, so that I might come when you were.”
“I see!”
“Do you, really?”
And Mr. Pease hastened to say that if he only came when she was there it would look as if—
“You came to see me?”
Mr. Pease said he felt he had somehow or other not said quite what he meant to say.
Diana quickly assured him she knew exactly what he had meant to say—that he really came to see Aunt Elsie, but that if he waited till Aunt Elsie had her niece back, then it would look as if it was the niece he had wanted to see. It was very clever of him—and Aunt Elsie would never suspect.