"He'd come to
propose, and was to leave engaged, and she insists upon opening upon
him frigidly, ignoring his outstretched hand."
I couldn't help smiling. "Why did you let her do it?" I asked.
"I could no more have changed it than I could fly," returned Stuart.
"She ought never to have been at home if she was going to behave that
way. I couldn't foresee the incident, and before I knew it that's
the way it happened. But I thought I could fix it up later, so I
went on. Read along, and see what I got let into next."
I proceeded to read as follows:)
"You see," said Parker, with an admiring glance at her eyes, in spite
of the fact that the coolness of her reception rather abashed him--
"you see, I have not delayed very long in coming."
"So I perceive," returned Marguerite, with a bored manner. "That's
what I said to Mrs. Willard as I came down. You don't allow your
friends much leeway, Mr. Parker. It doesn't seem more than five
minutes since we were together at the card party."
("That's cordial, eh?" said Harley, as I read.
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