“Ah! and does she think of you a good deal That’s what we must guard against.”
“Is it?”
“Yes. You see I’m her confidante.” She told it him with sparkling eyes, for the piquancy of it amused her. Not every engaged young woman can hear her lover’s praises sung by the woman whose life he has saved with the proper amount of romance.
“Really?”
She nodded, laughing at him. “I didn’t get a chance to tell her about me.”
“I suppose not.”
“I think I’ll tell her about you, though—just what a ruthless barbarian you are.”
His eyes gleamed “I wish you would. I’d like to find out whether she would believe you. I have tried to tell her myself, but the honest truth is, I funk it.”
“You haven’t any right to let her know you are interested in her.” She interrupted him before he could speak. “Don’t trifle with her, Waring. She’s not like other girls.”
He met her look gravely. “I wouldn’t trifle with her for any reason.”