“We were neighbors in our youth.”
“I believe I have heard him mention it.”
“And we did our prep school together, and then parted!”
“You tell exactly the same story, so it must be true. He went to college and you went to Tech.”
“And you knew him—?” I began, my curiosity thoroughly aroused.
“Not at college, any more than I knew you at Tech.”
“The train’s coming,” I said earnestly, “and I wish you would tell me—when I shall see you again!”
“Before we part for ever?” There was a mischievous hint of the Olivia in short skirts in her tone.
“Please don’t suggest it! Our times have been strange and few. There was that first night, when you called to me from the lake.”
“How impertinent! How dare you—remember that?”