"
"You needn't be afraid. There's not the remotest danger of my wanting to
run off with her."
"She's rather a beautiful person," warned Lady Susan laughingly. "You'll
probably lose your heart to her within half an hour."
"I've only done such a thing once in my life," he replied coolly. "I'm not
likely to do it again."
"When was that, Brett?" she asked with some curiosity. She had never heard
of his having any serious love-affair.
"To-day," he replied unexpectedly.
Lady Susan paused and surveyed him with unfeigned astonishment.
"Ann?" she cried. "Do you mean you've fallen in love with my little
Ann--already?"
"I mean rather more than that," he said deliberately. "I mean that I'm
going to marry your little Ann."
His aunt regarded him with a gleam of amusement.
"Ann Lovell is a young woman with a very decided mind of her own," she
observed. "It's just conceivable she might refuse you."
Forrester returned her glance with eyes like blue steel.
"It wouldn't make a bit of difference if she did," he said laconically.
CHAPTER XIII
"FRIENDSHIP IMPLIES TRUST"
_"Can you put me up? Tony."_
Ann was sitting in the garden one morning, industriously occupied in
shelling peas, when the foregoing terse wire was handed to her by the
village telegraph boy.
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