"But I thought you never told her?"
"She was talking about somebody else's skeleton, dear."
"Oh, somebody else's, that's a very different thing."
"She meant—if she'd been the woman. I was testing her, to see how she'd take it. Do you think I was very wrong?"
"Well, frankly, dear, I cannot say you were very wise."
"I wonder——"
She lay back wondering. Doubt of her wisdom shook her through all her tender being. She had been so sure.
"How would you have liked it," said she, "if Anne had given you up and gone away, and you'd never seen her again?"
His face said plainly that he wouldn't have liked it at all.
"Well, that's what she'd have done. And I wanted her to stay and marry you."