His eyes just blazed , but his face went white . He bent forward and took her hand . `` Sylvia , do you mean that you -- you actually care a little for me , dearest ? Oh , Sylvia , do you mean that ? '' `` Of course I do , '' said Sylvia right out . `` I 've always cared -- ever since I was a little girl coming here to school and breaking my heart over mathematics , although I hated them , just to be in your class . Why -- why -- I 've treasured up old geometry exercises you wrote out for me just because you wrote them . But I thought I could never make you care for me . I was the happiest girl in the world when your letter came today . '' `` Sylvia , '' said the Old Fellow , `` I 've loved you for years . But I never dreamed that you could care for me . I thought it quite useless to tell you of my love -- before . Will you -- can you be my wife , darling ? '' At this point Ruggles and I differ as to what came next . He asserts that Sylvia turned square around and kissed the Old Fellow . But I 'm sure she just turned her face and gave him a look and then he kissed her . Anyhow , there they both were , going on at the silliest rate about how much they loved each other and how the Old Fellow thought she loved Micky and all that sort of thing . It was awful . I never thought the Old Fellow or Sylvia either could be so spooney . Ruggles and I would have given anything on earth to be out of that .
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