"Georgie"
girl, with hair all fluffy and one of those silky veil things making you think how much you'd like her face if you could see all of it."
"Oh!—and she was angry?"
He thought a moment.
"More surprised than angry. When Georgie explained, she laughed. I never saw a girl laugh like that girl did. And Georgie told her everything."
Diana's heart throbbed with a sickening pang.
"Oh—he told her everything?"
"Yes,—and said all the nice things he could to bring her round and make her lend it to him, and show him the way to work it."
"Oh, he did, did he?"
"Yes. He told her he could see by the way she laughed that she was a real sportsman. He told her that hers was the prettiest little motor he had ever seen, and—"
"Did she let him have it, Dickie?" Her voice was pitifully earnest.
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