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The Scarlet Runner Dickie laughed.

"When he'd finished saying things, she was quite quiet for a minute; then she looked straight up into Georgie's face, and he smiled at her."

"Oh!" in a miserable voice. "He smiled at her."

"The girl seemed to like the way he smiled. She jumped straight into the car, laughing like anything. 'If I'm a sportsman,' she said, 'I'll do the sporting thing. I'll drive you myself."

He stopped.

"Well?" Diana asked breathlessly.

"That's all," Dickie finished abruptly, and went downstairs, the banister way.

"She must have been very badly brought up, to drive all that way with a complete stranger." Diana returned to her room with an aching heart. She was very young and she didn't understand. Her brothers were little boys, and she knew nothing of young men; so, because Georgie had spoken rudely and unkindly to her, she threw herself on her bed and cried. 183