He said slowly: "Why didn't you give them up to me if you didn't really want them, Betty?"

She shook her pretty head. "I don't know. . . . But I'm afraid it was only partly obstinacy."

"It was only partly that with me," he said.

They smiled.

"I just wanted to detain you, I suppose," he admitted.

"George, you wouldn't expect me to match that horrid confession—would you?"

"No, I wouldn't ask it of you."

He laid his cheek against hers and whispered: "Darling, do you think our great love justifies our concealing my myopia?"

"George," she murmured, "I think it does. . . . Besides, I'm dreadfully near-sighted myself."

"You!"