"But--" laughed Dan.
Again the hands flew to his face.
"Will you?"
"I will," said Dan.
"And you'll promise not to say or think such nonsense again?"
"I promise," said Dan.
And then for a while both fell silent, thinking of the future which lay
before them. The girl smiled as her day-dreams opened and expanded.
Dan frowned, and the fingers of his well-shaped hands locked and
unlocked across his knees.
Suddenly Virginia sprang to her feet with an exclamation.
"Oh, I forgot," she said, and ran, laughing, to the galley, whence she
returned with a large plate of fudge. At Dan's look of surprise she
tossed her head in mock disdain of what he might say or think.
"I unearthed two great cakes of chocolate last night," she said, "and
as I was simply dying for some candy I made fudge while preparing
breakfast. I had to use condensed milk, watered; and as there was no
marble slab I had to stir it in the pan. I don't know how good it is;
it's awfully grainy"; and thus, rattling on, she took a square of the
confection and placed it gingerly between her lips.
"Why, it's not so bad," she said. "Here! Open your mouth and shut
your eyes!" Which Dan did, declaring that he had never eaten anything
half so delicious.
"Really!" she exclaimed, with falling inflection.
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