I must say I do
admire people like that! I don't expect you do because you're so clever.
Well, last night we sat out in the garden together, and I couldn't help
seeing what he wanted to say, and comforting him a little, and telling
him I did care--I really do--only, then, there's Raymond Oliver. What I
want you to tell me is, can one be in love with two people at once, or
can't one?"
She became silent, and sat with her chin on her hands, looking very
intent, as if she were facing a real problem which had to be discussed
between them.
"I think it depends what sort of person you are," said Hewet. He
looked at her. She was small and pretty, aged perhaps twenty-eight or
twenty-nine, but though dashing and sharply cut, her features expressed
nothing very clearly, except a great deal of spirit and good health.
"Who are you, what are you; you see, I know nothing about you," he
continued.
"Well, I was coming to that," said Evelyn M. She continued to rest her
chin on her hands and to look intently ahead of her. "I'm the daughter
of a mother and no father, if that interests you," she said. "It's not a
very nice thing to be. It's what often happens in the country. She was
a farmer's daughter, and he was rather a swell--the young man up at the
great house. He never made things straight--never married her--though
he allowed us quite a lot of money.
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