Chapter 16
"Don't Get Excited !"Lovers, it would seem, require much less material for a quarrel
than persons in a less exalted frame of mind.
Good Indian believed himself very much in love with his
Christmas angel, and was very much inclined to let her know it, but
at the same time he saw no reason why he should not sit down in
Miss Georgie's rocking-chair, if he liked, and he could not quite
bring himself to explain even to Evadna his reason for doing so. It
humiliated him even to think of apologizing or explaining, and he
was the type of man who resents humiliation more keenly than a
direct injury.
As to Evadna, her atmosphere was that of conscious and
magnanimous superiority to any feeling so humanly petty as
jealousy—which is extremely irritating to anyone who is at all
s
