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"Yes, that's the point, Halson," Minver interposed. "Your story is all very well, as far as it goes; but Rulledge here has been insinuating that it was Miss Hazelwood who made the offer, and he wants you to bear him out." Rulledge winced at the outrage, but he would not stay Halson's answer even for the sake of righting himself.
It was some Canucks clearing a piece of the woods, and when she spoke to them in French they gave them full directions, and Braybridge soon found the path again." Halson paused, and I said: "But that isn't all?" "Oh no." He continued thoughtfully silent for a little while before he resumed.
"Well, I know there's that version," Halson said, evasively. "The engagement is only just out, as you know. As to the offer the when and the how I don't know that I'm exactly at liberty to say." "I don't see why," Minver urged. "You might stretch a point for Rulledge's sake." Halson looked down, and then he glanced at Minver after a furtive passage of his eye over Rulledge's intense face.
"Yes, that's the point, Halson," Minver interposed. "Your story is all very well, as far as it goes; but Rulledge here has been insinuating that it was Miss Hazelwood who made the offer, and he wants you to bear him out." Rulledge winced at the outrage, but he would not stay Halson's answer even for the sake of righting himself.
"Well, I know there's that version," Halson said evasively. "The engagement is only just out, as you know. As to the offer the when and the how I don't know that I'm exactly at liberty to say." "I don't see why," Minver urged. "You might stretch a point for Rulledge's sake." Halson looked down, and then he glanced at Minver after a furtive passage of his eye over Rulledge's intense face.
Halson laughed at Minver's thrust, and went on amiably: "I don't suppose that till she met Braybridge she was ever quite at her ease with any man or woman, for that matter. I imagine, as you've done, that it was his fear of her that gave her courage. She met him on equal terms. Isn't that it?" Wanhope assented to the question referred to him with a nod.
"Why " Wanhope began again; but at that moment a man who had been elected the year before, and then gone off on a long absence, put his head in between the dull-red hangings of the doorway. It was Halson, whom I did not know very well, but liked better than I knew.
Halson laughed at Minver's thrust, and went on amiably: "I don't suppose that till she met Braybridge she was ever quite at her ease with any man or woman, for that matter. I imagine, as you've done, that it was his fear of her that gave her courage. She met him on equal terms. Isn't that it?" Wanhope assented to the question referred to him with a nod.
It would lift a tremendous responsibility off the birds who've been expected to shoulder it heretofore if it could be introduced into real life." Rulledge fetched a long, simple-hearted sigh. "Well, it's a charming story. How well he told it!" The waiter came again, and this time signalled to Minver. "Yes," he said, as he rose. "What a pity you can't believe a word Halson says."
He suggested shouting, but she wouldn't let him; she said it would be ridiculous if the others heard them, and useless if they didn't. So they tramped on till till the accident happened." "The accident!" Rulledge exclaimed, in the voice of our joint emotion. "He stepped on a loose stone and turned his foot," Halson explained. "It wasn't a sprain, luckily, but it hurt enough.
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