And I did not say since when.
"And what of it?" she asked.
"Nothing -" I said, stammering a little, "but I wait."
"He's waiting, poor lad," she said. "Have ye not had letters from him?"
"Never; not since that one I sent him through you."
"He got it, however," said Miss Cardigan; "for there was no reason whatever why he should not. Did you think, Daisy, he had forgotten you?"
"No, Miss Cardigan; but it was told of him that - he had forgotten me."
"How was that done? I thought no one knew about your loving each other, you two children."
"So I thought; but - why, Miss Cardigan, it was confidently told in Paris to my mother that he was engaged to a schoolmate of mine."
"Did you believe it?"