"Same here." Then after a pause, "Feeling less spinsterish?"
"I don't feel in the least spinsterish, thank you."
"Well," he said, "I never saw you looking less so. Chip, poor devil, lay there and gazed with his soul in his eyes."
"Really, Noel!"
"Fact. But you'll have to change your methods. You'll have to cut that 'he'll have to come all the way to me' business. Because he won't; he's too shy."
Judy would have been in a cold fury had any one else dared to speak so to her, but she took it from Noel with perfect good humor.
"I gather you'd like me to see more of him."
"Well, why not? If ever a man needed some woman to take an interest in him, that man is Chip."
"He may need it, but from the little I've seen of him I don't think he wants it."
"Of course he wants it. He's human. I wouldn't mind having him in the family."
Judy had to laugh.
"Don't you think it's rather soon to make up your mind? After all, you hardly know him."
