“Oh yes, I should let her have it,” he said again.
But June still hesitated.
“Micky––supposing it’s to tell her about––you know ... about this marriage?”
There was a moment’s silence.
“Oh, it would hardly be that,” Micky said positively. “At least––well, if it is, we must chance it.” But his voice did not sound as if he were at all anxious.
CHAPTER XXIV
June raked up another appointment for the following day. “I’m behaving like an angel to you,” she told Micky. “Yesterday I tramped about the fields till I was worn out so that I should be out of the way and Esther could meet you. Oh, she didn’t want to go at all,” she hastened to add as she saw the look of pleasure that filled his eyes. “I had to make her go.”
“Yes, I quite believe that,” Micky said.