The Goddess Girl
"Say, Georgie," murmured she. "I guess we'd better make tracks, hadn't we? This sort of thing's making us all feel meaner'n two cents."
At the sound of those drawling accents, Anne turned furiously and stopped Muggeridge's explanation.
"It's a put up thing!" she cried. "Oh, I'm not blind, I'm not blind! It's Georgie who's tired of me! He's been getting tired of me ever since you came. And you—did you know he was engaged to me?"
"Well," the Goddess Girl smiled, "I just put two and two together. I never was much at sums, but from Georgie's generally depressed state I guessed there was something serious troubling him. Then I made inquiries—"
Anne caught her breath. "Did you find out anything else from your inquiries?" she cried. "Did you find out about Drusilla, and Violet Sunderland? Georgie's engagements have a short life and a merry one. It is not—dull, to be Georgie's fiancée."
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