"
Dexie was soon beside him with a small tray, and as he drank his coffee he
said, as he looked at her keenly:
"I want to know one thing, Dexie, and then I won't question you any more.
What was the trouble between you and Traverse these few weeks back?
Something was wrong with you, at any rate, but you do not confide in me as
you used to do."
"Well, you naughty papa! How could I tell you my little secrets when you
let them out the first thing?" she laughingly replied.
Her father looked at her in surprise, and she added,
"I told you not to tell that I broke the engagement with Lancy Gurney, and
you told Guy that very first evening."
"Well, where was the harm? He seemed very anxious to know about it, and I
am sure you seemed to rejoice over your freedom."
"Yes! but I didn't want Guy to know it, for it made it so much harder for
me to meet him."
"Dexie, did you break your promise with Lancy on account of Traverse? Well,
well! I understand it now; but who would have thought that you cared for
him when you were so cool and short!"
"You surely would not have me make the first advances, papa?" laughing.
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