He caught at the edge of her flowing sleeve, and held it as if he would anchor her to him. "Do you want me to stay?"
Her eyes came up to him. She saw in them something which lifted her above and beyond her doubts of him. She had an ineffable sense of having found something which she could never lose.
Then as he drew back he was stammering, "Forgive me. I have been wanting to wish you happiness. Geoffrey told me——"
And now Peggy bore down upon them and all the heedless happy crowd, and Richard said, "Good-night," and was gone.
Yet when she was left alone, Anne felt desperately that she should have shouted after him, "I am not going to marry Geoffrey Fox. I am not going to be married at all."
CHAPTER XV
In Which Anne Asks and Jimmie Answers.
"'A moneyless man,'" said Uncle Rod, "'goes quickly through the market.'"