"Hedging?"
"Practically; I've told a man I'd marry him if it suited me to do so some day; but, meanwhile, he must consider himself padlocked. Isn't that a nice, thrifty, feminine contract?"
"Are you serious?"
"Entirely."
"Who is he?"
She glanced at him uncertainly.
"I think you've heard me speak of him, Jim."
"Wallace?"
"That is the youth."
"Are you in love with him?"