Chapter 70

He wheeled about and came up to her as she stood beside the desk. He had made up his mind. "Ross, why did you come up here?" "To keep the Country Bookshop, because the Mrs. Arthur that Miss Hallam had engaged suddenly got married and defaulted. And to get some new experience." "Were those the only reasons?" His eyes searched hers. "No. I--somehow or other--that first visit in your home must have inoculated me with the germ of country life, though I didn't know it. In spite of myself I kept thinking about ever so ma…