"Something very pleasant must have happened to you to-day," said Gussie,
looking at him archly, "or else you have been studying a joke-book for our
amusement."
"Well, I have good reason to be jolly to-night," he replied, changing his
seat so as to watch Dexie's face. "I am going to be married! That fact
alone ought to make any reasonable man happy, don't you think?"
This announcement was so unexpected by everyone, that even Mr. Sherwood
looked up in surprise, and wondered "what next," and Dexie's eyes flashed
in indignation as she said to herself:
"Then he was only trying to get up a flirtation with me, after all, and his
tender looks and gallant speeches were only intended to draw me out! How
glad I am I never gave him the smallest encouragement! What should I have
done if he had guessed my secret? Yet he looked so true--who would believe
he was so deceitful? Oh, dear!"
She bent her head lower over her work, and said not a word. No one should
ever know how her heart ached at that announcement.
Gussie had always feared that if ever Guy Traverse gave up his "city girl"
he would turn to Dexie for consolation, and she was glad to hear this
announcement.
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