Chapter 60

But all his calculations went wrong. When he had brought Susan to her home, and the car had stopped, she said in a smothered voice: "I've been reading your thoughts every step of the way, Davy. And this is what I read. You'd like to be nice to me, but you're afraid you oughtn't, now I've proved to you I've grown up.... Well, then, I'm going to give you this--and leave you to think about it. Maybe you'll find you aren't so old and staid as you fancy you are!" And she put both arms tight about his neck, pressed her f…