Come, Stewart! We must hurry!"
Young Mr. Daunt was near the door. He opened it for her. When Stewart
passed, following the girl closely, the volunteer door-tender qualified as
a good sport. He whispered, "Good luck, old man!"
When Coventry closed the door he gave his sister a prolonged and pregnant
stare of actual triumph.
It was only a look, but he put into it more significance than sufficed for
Doris's perspicacity.
He had confided to his sister, the evening before, his hopeful reliance on
a girl's heart.
But the Lana Corson who came down the stairs, who confronted them, who had
fearlessly chosen her mate before their hostile eyes, was a woman.
And Coventry's gaze told his sister boastingly that he had made good in
one respect--he had called the turn in his estimate of a woman.
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