“I will give you the pin.”
He took it out and handed it to her.
“Here, dearest.”
“Now go and sit there. It is too hot for—”
“You never kiss me or let me kiss you.”
“I hate kissing—indiscriminate kissing.”
“You will not always hate it,” he answered. “I must go, I want to settle things with my uncle. You will accept their invitation to stay there?”
He found it best to forget the day she had asked him to set her free. She remembered it and his confession always.
“Not yet. I could not leave here until Mrs. Cooper and Sylvia go.”
“You will have me with you there all day—it will be perfect.”