“Wait,” she said. He paused with the sliding door half open.
“You bedder not come also. Let me speag to her alone. Tha’s bedder. If she doan consent, then I skeer her and say I marry wiz Matsuda. She doan wish that. She desire him for Yuri.”
“Oh, I see.”
“Ah-bah!” (Good-bye!) she said, passing through the opening. He drew her back.
“Is that the way to say ‘good-bye’?” he asked reproachfully.
She was puzzled.
“This is the American way,” he said boyishly, and stooping, kissed her.
CHAPTER VI
She ran all the way home. She wanted her step-mother’s consent as quickly as possible, so that she might hasten back to the minister.