Makes one quite believe in an overruling
Providence.
It would make it easier, she
thoughtdrearily.
COULD any girl really hesitate over accepting Teddy
Kent?
Her own life was looking very bleak and starvedjust
then.
And so there is something I must tell you. Ilse
told Emily they were mid-Victorian screams. Nobodyshould suspect what she felt not
if she died for it.
Youre sure you addressed a bid to Perry, arent
you?
If he hadnt goneyou mightnt have lost him. I knew
Teddy cared more for you than he did for me. It was just before he went outto
Winnipeg on a business trip. New Moon is a dear place insummer, but in winter you
must be absolutely buried alive. Thesweetness of the revelation blotted out, for the
time at least, allother feelings.
Teddy looked right into my eyes meaningly and
said,Perry will not be here. Kents tale,was keenly conscious of only one thing.
Morrison and said such sweet, unforgettable things to her.
She wasin a frenzy of impatience to be rid of him.
Did I tell you Teddy isbringing Lorne Halsey with him for best man?
Asof yore, the house seemed to be afraid of
laughter. Makes one quite believe in an overruling Providence.
Ill be calling you Aunt Emily in a minute. Kent
stopped and changed suddenly from a woman quivering withunveiled feeling to a prim
Victorian.
His way of making love wasto ask me my opinion
about things.
He kepton asking questions about it until Emily
really didnt know whatshe was saying. I suppose I said Iwould because its quite
clear he thinks we are engaged.