She laughed outright, then gave him her hand as she said, "Your
honesty insures that we can be very good friends; but I don't wish
to hear anything more about suits which are close of kin to
lawsuits."
He looked very dejected, feeling that he had blundered fatally in
his precipitation.
"Come now, Hedley, be sensible," she resumed, half laughing, half
serious. "As you say, we can be frank with each other. Why, only
the other day we were boy and girl together coasting downhill on
the same sled. You are applying your legal jargon to a deep
experience, to something sacred--the result, to my mind, of a
divine instinct. Neither you nor I have ever felt for each other
this instinctive preference, this subtle gravitation of the heart.
Don't you see? Your head has been concerned about me, and only
your head. By a kindred process you would select one bale of
merchandise in preference to another. Good gracious! I've faults
enough. You'll meet some other girl that will stand some other
test far better than I. I want a little of what you call silly
romance in my courtship.
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