`` So I 'll just resolve that I will say ` no ' if I do n't want to say ` yes . ' That really amounts to the same thing , you know . Thank you so much for letting me tell you all about it . It must have bored you terribly , but it has done me so much good . I feel quite calm and rational now , and can go home and behave myself . Goodbye . '' `` Goodbye , '' said the Young Man gravely . He stood on the pavilion and watched the Girl out of sight beyond the pines . When the Girl got home she was told that the Dalhousie team had won the game , eight to four . The Girl dragged her hat off and waved it joyously . `` What a shame I was n't there ! They 'd have gone mad over my dress . '' But the next item of information crushed her . The Creature had arrived . He had called that afternoon , and was coming to dinner that night . `` How fortunate , '' said the Girl , as she went to her room , `` that I relieved my mind to that Young Man out in the park today . If I had come back with all that pent-up feeling seething within me and heard this news right on top of it all , I might have flown into a thousand pieces . What lovely brown eyes he had ! I do dote on brown eyes . The Creature will be sure to have fishy blue ones . ''
* * * * * When the Girl went down to meet the XXXXX she found herself confronted by the Young Man .
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