She said, with surprise and emotion: “You are very kind to me, Mr. Annan. You always have been——”
“It is you who are kind. You seem unconscious of your own generosity. Will you come to see me, or shall I come to you, Eris?”
“You know,” she explained with happy animation, “I’ve taken the entire floor where I had my room in Jane Street. It would be quite all right for you to come.”
“Fine!” he exclaimed. “Tea?”
“Why—that’s not very early——”
“After lunch, then?”
“You could come to breakfast,” she said with a half shy, half laughing glance. “I was born on a farm and I rise very early. You do, too—I remember——”
“You friendly girl! You bet I’ll come!”
“I hate to waste time in sleep,” she added, still shy and smiling.... “What do you like for breakfast, Mr. Annan?—Oh, I remember. Mrs. Sniffen told me——”
“You surely can’t recollect——”