“Wait a moment,” said the doctor, “I have just thought of a little book that I am sure you will be interested in reading. It is called ‘A Gateway and a Gift,’ and it deals with some of the questions we have been talking about this evening. You can lend it to some of your boy friends if you wish.”
“Thank you,” said Carl, taking the book which the doctor handed him, and then with another “Good night,” he walked away in the darkness.
The note which he gave to Miss Bell the next morning read merely:
“Don’t say anything to Carl. Just wait.”
If Miss Bell had seen a note slipped by Carl into Susie Glenn’s hand an hour later she might have thought it an evidence that the doctor’s plan had failed. But had she read the note her opinion would have been that it had succeeded. It read:
“Dear Susie:––It was real mean of me to write that note yesterday. Will you forgive me? Say, Susie, I think all this nonsense about lovers and sweethearts is silly rot, don’t you? Let’s be just friends. Respectfully yours,
Carl.”
Susie’s answer was short but to the point. It read:
“All right. Let’s.