“Elsie—” he began tenderly.
But the girl stopped him. “Now don’t begin to question me,” she ordered. “I won’t answer.”
“You are trying to hide something from me,” said Harvey, grasping the girl’s unwilling hand. The girl drew away from him.
“That’s not true,” she said. “I don’t want you to bother me.”
“I never used to bother you,” said Harvey, his face flushing.
“That was before—” began Elsie impulsively. “I mean now,” she went on, catching herself. “I mean that you do now because you have changed.”
“No,” contradicted Harvey, “but you have.”
“What do you mean by that?” challenged the girl.
Harvey stood silent for a moment and jerked out a laugh of embarrassment. “I don’t know exactly what I mean,” he said, “but you know we were engaged.”
Elsie flushed. “We were not,” she said.