It rubbed all the bloom off the pleasant evening . But she would not let Ellen see how it hurt her . `` Nonsense , '' she said , and laughed , a little too carelessly . `` You see a beau for me in every bush , Ellen . Why he told me all about his wife to-night -- how much she was to him -- how empty her death had left the world . '' `` Well , that may be HIS way of courting , '' retorted Ellen . `` Men have all kinds of ways , I understand . But do n't forget your promise , Rosemary . '' `` There is no need of my either forgetting or remembering it , '' said Rosemary , a little wearily . `` YOU forget that I 'm an old maid , Ellen . It is only your sisterly delusion that I am still young and blooming and dangerous . Mr. Meredith merely wants to be a friend -- if he wants that much itself . He 'll forget us both long before he gets back to the manse . '' `` I 've no objection to your being friends with him , '' conceded Ellen , `` but it mus n't go beyond friendship , remember . I 'm always suspicious of widowers . They are not given to romantic ideas about friendship . They 're apt to mean business . As for this Presbyterian man , what do they call him shy for ? He 's not a bit shy , though he may be absent-minded -- so absent-minded that he forgot to say goodnight to ME when you started to go to the door with him . He 's got brains , too .
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