"Georgie"
hours on the way. I was sitting with Georgie's mother when she rushed in, and her face was ghastly."
"Well?"
Drusilla rubbed her eyes.
"I wanted to go away, but they wouldn't let me. Diana flung her arms round both our necks and burst out crying. She said she would never have spoken to Georgie as she did if she had known that he was in trouble, and that she had disobeyed her father in now coming to see him."
"Ah," said I thoughtfully.
"Yes, indeed," Drusilla went on with a rush, "I was quite right and so was Georgie. She has been ordered to give him up. She came to tell them that she loves him with all her heart, and forgave him for anything he had ever done. She wanted to tell him herself that her parents said she was to give him up. You see, Martin, the poor child has another admirer, an affluent neighbor of theirs, and now, of course, an infinitely better match."
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