“That must be it. Every day they accumulated. I needed you....” She checked herself, breathless, smiling, the colour bright in her cheeks. “All you have done and are doing,” she said, half to herself, “I have so longed to hear about. All I have tried to do I was crazy to tell you about.... And now—I can’t think—remember——”
“We must make another engagement.”
“Please!... I was so unhappy about the other one——”
“What hour can you give me, Eris?”
To give had been his perquisite heretofore. She seemed to so consider it, still.
“Could you spare me a little time to-morrow?” she asked, almost timidly.
“Would you dine with me?”
She said naïvely: “Couldn’t we see each other before to-morrow night? It seems so long——”
The swift charm of her impatience surprised and touched him. Again this young man was rapidly losing his balance in the girl’s candour.
“Whenever you care to see me,” he said, “I’ll come.... Any day, any hour.”