Oh, Harriet, it is awfully humiliating to have to
think it, but I believe the reason he treats me like he does is that I
showed him too plainly how much I loved him."
"I did not suspect till the other day," said Harriet, to avoid that
point, "that he was paying you any particular attention. Mother told
me he often drove you out home."
"Oh, la, that ain't a circumstance, Harriet! He used to come out home
mighty nigh every day or night. Pa an' ma think he is a regular
prince. You know he swore pa out of a big whiskey scrape in Atlanta,
and since then pa and him has been mighty thick. They thought all
along that Toot wanted to marry me, and it made 'em mighty proud, and
then it began to look like he was settin' up to you. That's why I quit
staying here, Harriet. I couldn't be around you so much and know--or
think, as I did, that he was beginning to love you."
"I don't think," protested Harriet, "that he was ever deeply interested
in me. You must not think that. In fact, I believe now, Hettie, that
you and he will be happily married some day--if he ever gets out of his
trouble.
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