"Well, all's well that ends well," I answered; "but it might have been better, my girl, if you had mentioned that young man of yours a bit earlier."
"I did not know it was of any importance," she explained. "Mr. Parable told me nothing. If it hadn't been for chance, I should never have known what was happening."
I had always liked the young woman. Mr. Quincey had suggested my waiting till after Wednesday. But there seemed to me no particular object in delay.
"Are you fond of him?" I asked her.
"Yes," she answered. "I am fonder than———" And then she stopped herself suddenly and flared scarlet. "Who are you talking about?" she demanded.
"This young man of yours," I said. "Mr.—What's his name—Onions?"
"Oh, that?" she answered. "Oh, yes; he's all right."
"And if he wasn't?" I said, and she looked at me hard.
"I told him," she said, "that if he would do what I asked him to do, I'd marry him. And he seems to have done it."
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