The amazing thing was that he felt she was happy too -- happy because she was walking with him , `` Jarback '' Temple , whom no girl had even thought about . A certain secret well-spring of fancy that had seemed dry welled up in him sparklingly again . Through the summer weeks the odd courtship went on . Roger talked to her as he had never talked to anyone . He did not find it in the least hard to talk to her , though her necessity of watching his face so closely while he talked bothered him occasionally . He felt that her intent gaze was reading his soul as well as his lips . She never talked much herself ; what she did say she spoke so low that it was hardly above a whisper , but she had a voice as lovely as her face -- sweet , cadenced , haunting . Roger was quite mad about her , and he was horribly afraid that he could never get up enough courage to ask her to marry him . And he was afraid that if he did , she would never consent . In spite of her shy , eager welcomes he could not believe she could care for him -- for him . She liked him , she was sorry for him , but it was unthinkable that she , white , exquisite Lilith , could marry him and sit at his table and his hearth . He was a fool to dream of it . To the existence of romance and glamour in which he lived , no gossip of the countryside penetrated . Yet much gossip there was , and at last it came blundering in on Roger to destroy his fairy world a second time . He came downstairs one night in the twilight , ready to go to Lilith . His aunt and an old crony were talking in the kitchen ; the crony was old , and Catherine , supposing Roger was out of the house , was talking loudly in that horrible voice of hers with still more horrible zest and satisfaction . `` Yes , I 'm guessing it 'll be a match as ye say . Oh the b ` y 's doing well . He ai n't for every market , as I 'm bound to admit . Ef she wa n't deaf she would n't look at him , no doubt .
But she has scads of money -- they wo n't need XXXXX do a tap of work unless they like -- and she 's a good housekeeper too her aunt tells me .
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