She nodded. "Yes. I was the girl the little lady gave the doll to. You were there. Don't you remember? I ran away with it. I have it now--a part of it. They broke it up; but I saved the body."
Keith's eyes opened wide.
"That Lois Huntington gave it to?"
"Yes. I heard you were going to be married?" she said suddenly.
"I! Married! No! No such good luck for me." His laugh had an unexpected tone of bitterness in it. She gave him a searching glance in the dusk, and presently began again haltingly.
"I want you to know I am never going back to that any more."
"I am glad to hear it."
"You were the first to set me to thinkin' about it."
"I!"
"Yes; I want to live straight, and I'm goin' to."