“Did you know it then, when you were so mean to me?”
“That was why I was so mean to you. I had to punish myself and you because I—liked you so well.”
She buried her face shyly in his coat to cover this confession.
It seemed easy for both of them to laugh over nothing in the exuberance of their common happiness. His joy pealed now delightedly.
“I can't believe it—that four days ago you wasn't on the earth for me. Seems like you always belonged; seems like I always enjoyed your sassy ways.”
“That's just the way I feel about you. It's really scandalous that in less than a week—just a little more than half a week—we should be engaged. We are engaged, aren't we?”
“Very much.”
“Well, then—it sounds improper, but it isn't the least bit. It's right. Isn't it?”
“It ce'tainly is.”
“But you know I've always thought that people who got engaged so soon are the same kind of people that correspond through matrimonial papers. I didn't suppose it would ever happen to me.”