"All right," he said quietly.
They walked slowly back to the house together, and the girl went directly to her room, where she found her sister mending stockings.
CHAPTER IX
NON SEQUITUR
Silvette dropped into an armchair, crossed her knees, and sat swinging her foot and gazing through the open window in silence until Diana's head, lifted from time to time in smiling interrogation, could be no longer ignored.
"Jack Rivett has asked me to marry him," she said in an expressionless voice.
Diana laughed in frank surprise:
"That infant!"
"Yes."
"What an absurdity!"