"
"Very likely," I said. "Although she has had a number of
chances and always refuses."
"Probably the right Person has not happened along;" he
observed.
"Perhaps," I said, in a signifacant tone. "Or perhaps he
does not know he is the right Person."
William, of whom more anon, was passing the ice cream just
then. I refused it, saying:
"Not in war time."
"Barbara," mother said, stiffly. "Don't be a silly. Eat
your desert."
As I do not like seens I then took a little, but no cake.
During dinner Leila made an observation which has somewhat
changed my opinion of Carter Brooks. She said his mother did not
want him to enlist which was why he had not. She has no other
sons and probably never will have, being a widow.
I have now come to William.
Lucy Gray had been on Secret Service that day, but did the
observing from the windows of their house, as my Familey was at
home and liable to poke into my room at any moment.
William had made it up with the cook, Lucy said, and had
showed her a game of Solitaire in the morning by the kitchin
window.
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