“When did you find this out?”
“I began to find it out the first day of our engagement. I couldn’t make it seem right. I’ve been in a process of learning it ever since. It wouldn’t be fair to you for me to marry you.”
“You’re a brick, Virginia!” he cried jubilantly.
“No, I’m not. That is a minor reason. The really important one is that it wouldn’t be fair to me.”
“No, it would not,” he admitted, with an air of candor.
“Because, you see, I happen to care for another man,” she purred.
His vanity leaped up fully armed. “Another man! Who?”
“That’s my secret,” she answered, smiling at his chagrin.
“And his?”
“I said mine. At any rate, if three knew, it wouldn’t be a secret,” was her quick retort.