"It seems to me so."
"And you, Rita?"
She shook her pretty head in silence.
After a while Gladys jumped up into her lap, and she lay back in her arm-chair smoothing the creature's fur, and gazing absently into space.
"Kelly," she said, "how many, many years ago it seems when you came up to Delaware County to see us."
"It seems very long ago to me, too."
She lifted her blue eyes:
"May I speak plainly? I have known you a long while. There is only one man I like better. But there is no woman in the world whom I love as I love Valerie West…. May I speak plainly?"
"Yes."
"Then—be fair to her, Kelly. Will you?"