'Do say yes, please!' said Captain Lancaster, turning from the other group. 'You have said nothing but no for the last month.'
'Well, if being a negative means that one is not also a positive—' Hazel began.
'And then, oh Miss Kennedy,' broke in Molly Seaton, 'there's this new Englishman!—'
'A new Englishman!—'
'Yes,' said Molly, unconscious why the rest laughed, 'and he's seen you at church. And he has vowed he will not go home till he has seen you in the German.'
'Has he?' said Hazel. 'I hope he likes America.'
They gathered round her at that, in a breeze of laughter and entreaty, till her shy gravity gave way, and Mr. Rollo's ears were saluted by such a musical laugh as he had not heard for many a day.
'He'll be here presently,' said Molly. 'He's up in the mill with Kitty Fisher. So you can ask him yourself, Miss Kennedy.'
Rollo heard, and purposely held himself a little back, and continued a conversation he did not attend to; he would not be more of a spoil-sport then he could help.
'You'll come, won't you, Hazel?' said Josephine. 'I will be very good if you will come.'