Alvin was in good spirits. Evidently Barrimore had been getting on very well with Eweretta.
But how incredible it seemed that he should not recognize her!
Yet he had always known that the half-sisters were like as twins, and he was sure that his old love was dead. An accepted fact wants some upsetting!
But how romantic it would be if Philip should again fall in love with Eweretta, believing her to be Aimée!
When the young men rose to go, Alvin begged them to repeat their visit, which they promised to do at an early date.
“I figure that we shall be friends,” he added.
On the way back to the bungalow Philip said:
“It is a most amazing thing, Dan, that Aimée Le Breton should have so completely recovered her reason. It was quite uncanny to hear her talk. ’Pon my word, at times I felt I must be hearing her dead sister speak! But she is, after all, very different from Eweretta. Eweretta was joyous as a child. I cannot imagine Aimée Le Breton as joyous at any time. She does not seem unhappy; on the contrary, she is content. But she struck me as a woman incapable of joy.”
CHAPTER XXI
TWO MEN DISCUSS A WOMAN
Dan Webster stayed on at the bungalow till the evening shadows gathered, and during the whole time Miss Le Breton had formed the subject of conversation, which finally developed into argument.