"Oh!" said Lulu. "Oh, no—I mean—"
"I heard about the eloping again this morning," he said. "That's just what you did—you brought her back."
"You mustn't tell that! You won't? You won't!"
"No. 'Course not." He mulled it. "You tell me this: Do they know? I mean about your going after her?"
"No."
"You never told!"
"They don't know she went."
"That's a funny thing," he blurted out, "for you not to tell her folks—I mean, right off. Before last night...."
"You don't know them. Dwight'd never let up on that—he'd joke her about it after a while."
"But it seems—"