“For Towne—nonsense.”
“It isn’t nonsense. She knows nothing of love. She may have taken the shadow for the substance. And he can be very—charming.” It wrung his heart to say it. But almost with clairvoyance he saw the truth.
When they returned to the house Baldy found a message from Edith. He was to call her up.
“Uncle Frederick has just told me,” she said, “that Jane is to be my aunt. Isn’t it joyful?”
“I’m not sure.”
“Why not?”
“Oh, Towne’s all right. But not for Jane.”
“I see. But he’s really in love with her, poor old duck. Talked about it all through dinner. He’s going to try awfully hard to make her happy.”
He heard her gay laugh over the wire. “It will be nice—to have you—in the family. I’ll be your niece-in-law.”