I was not worried about the violets, as I consider Money spent as
but water over a damn, and no use worrying about. But I was no longer
hungry, and I observed this to Jane.
"Oh, come on," she said, in an impatient maner. "I'll pay for it."
I can read Jane's inmost thoughts, and I read them then. She considered
that I had cold feet financially, although with almost $945.00 in the
bank. Therefore I said at once:
"Don't be silly. It is my party. And we'll take some candy home."
However, I need not have worried, for we met Tommy Gray in the tea shop,
and he paid for everything.
I pause here to reflect. How strange to look back, and think of all
that has since hapened, and that I then considered that Tommy Gray was
interested in Jane and never gave me a thought. Also that I considered
that the look he gave me now and then was but a friendly glanse! Is it
not strange that Romanse comes thus into our lives, through the medium
of a tea-cup, or an eclair, unheralded and unsung, yet leaving us never
the same again?
Even when Tommy bought us candy and carried mine under his arm while
leaving Jane to get her own from the counter, I suspected nothing. But
when he said to me, "Gee, Bab, you're geting to be a regular Person,"
and made no such remark to Jane, I felt that it was rather pointed.
Also, on walking up the Avenue, he certainly walked nearer me than Jane.
I beleive she felt it, to, for she made a sharp speach or to about his
Youth, and what he meant to do when he got big.
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