“Barbara!” she said, and stopped dead. “Is it any one I know?”
“He is an Actor.”
“Ye gods!” said Jane, in a tence voice. “What a tradgedy!”
“Tradgedy indeed,” I was compeled to admit. “Jane, my Heart is breaking. I am not alowed to see him. It is all off, forever.”
“Darling!” said Jane. “You are trembling all over Hold on to me. Do they disaprove?”
“I am never to see him again. Never.”
The bitterness of it all overcame me. My eyes sufused with tears.
But I told her, in broken accents, of my determination to stick to him, no matter what. I might never be Mrs. Adrian Egleston, but——”
“Adrian Egleston!” she cried, in amazement. “Why Barbara, you lucky Thing!”
So, finding her fuller of simpathy than usual, I violated my Vow of Silence and told her all.