"One thing is certain sure," she continued, while her hands were busy
with the dishes and the table preparations: "If we can endure this test,
we need never, never, never fear that anything nor anybody can ever,
ever make us doubt the genuineness of our love. Auntie Sue has certainly
arranged it most beautifully for Brian Kent and Betty Jo Williams to
become thoroughly acquainted."
Betty Jo suddenly paused in her work, and stood very still: "I wonder,"
she said slowly,--"can it be,--is it possible,--what if Auntie Sue has
brought about this situation for that very reason?"
"Breakfast ready?" cried Brian at the kitchen-door, and his voice was so
hearty and natural that the girl answered as naturally: "It will be
as soon as you are ready for it. I forget, do you like your eggs three
minutes or four?"
They really managed that breakfast very well, even if they did sit
opposite each other so that each was forced to look straight across
the table into the face of the other. Or, perhaps, it was because they
looked at each other so straight and square and frankly honest that the
breakfast went so well.
And because the breakfast went so well, they managed the dinner and the
supper also.
"I have been thinking," said Brian at the close of their evening meal,
looking straight into the gray eyes over the table, "perhaps it might be
better for you to stay at neighbor Tom's until Auntie Sue returns.
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