"Anthony Blake?"
"Yes."
Miss Matthews dropped back limply.
"You'll have to tell me from the beginning," she said, faintly. "I can't quite grasp it——"
And Bettina told—of her loneliness, of Anthony's wonderful offer, and of her glad acceptance of it.
"Well, your mother would have been delighted," Miss Matthews said; "but somehow it doesn't seem right."
"Why not——?"
"Oh, I'd fixed it up that you were going to marry Justin Ford. Captain Stubbs and I watched you that day we went fishing, and if ever two young things seemed to be in love—well——"
"I—we are in love, Letty."
"Then why in the world are you going to marry Anthony Blake?"