'I have not known what to put in them.'
'How is that? You never found such a difficulty before?'
'No. Nor now. I could fill them both in one hour. But then if I did not want to take out what was there, I might as well have Prim's at once.'
'Why should you not wish to take the things out?' said Rollo, with an inward smile but perfect outward gravity.
'I made up my mindlast winter,' said Hazel rather low, 'that I should not always like what you like,and that I would act as if I did.'
The first part of his answer Rollo did not trust to words; but presently he told her, half laughing, that he thought she was wrong in both her positions.
'You think I willand you think I won't,' said Hazel. 'Is that it?'
'Not at all. Yes, half of it, the first. I think you will, as you say. But I never want you to act contrary to your own feeling; and if I can help it, I will not let you.'
Hazel laughed a laugh of frank amusement.
'Always excepting,' she said, 'the few occasions when my "feeling" does not answer the helm! You see,' she added, growing grave again, 'I have all my life bought just what I liked, and as much as I liked, and because I liked.'