`` Janet , do n't stand there looking like that . I 've no patience with you . I shall be perfectly happy with Bruce -- I would have been miserable with Randall . I know I sha n't sleep a wink tonight -- I 'm so excited . Why , Janet , I 'll be Mrs. Gordon of Gordon Brae -- and I 'll have everything heart can desire and the man of my heart to boot . What has lanky Randall Burnley with his little six-roomed house to set against that ? '' If Avery did not sleep , neither did Janet . She lay awake till dawn , suffering such misery as she had never endured in her life before . She knew she must go to Randall Burnley tomorrow and break his heart . If she did not , Avery would tell him -- tell him what Janet had done . And he must not know that -- he must not . Janet could not bear that thought . * * * * * It was a pallid , dull-eyed Janet who went through the birch wood to the Burnley farm next afternoon , leaving behind her an excited household where the sudden change of bridegrooms , as announced by Avery , had rather upset everybody . Janet found Randall working in the garden of his new house -- setting out rosebushes for Avery -- Avery , who was to jilt him at the very altar , so to speak . He came over to open the gate for Janet , smiling his dear smile . It was a dear smile -- Janet caught her breath over the dearness of it -- and she was going to blot it off his face . She spoke out , with plainness and directness . When you had to deal a mortal blow , why try to lighten it ? `` Avery sent me to tell you that she is going to marry Bruce Gordon instead of you . He came last night -- and she says that she has always liked him best . ''
A very curious change came XXXXX Randall 's face -- but not the change Janet had expected to see .
If as before behind in like of over to with