`` Why , I 'm getting on -- twenty-two -- all the girls of my age are married already . I wo n't be an old maid , and there 's nobody but Randall . Nobody good enough for a Sparhallow , that is . You would n't want me to marry Ned Adams or John Buchanan , would you ? '' `` No , '' said Janet , who had her full share of the Sparhallow pride . `` Well , then , of course I must marry Randall . That 's settled and there 's no use making faces over the notion . I 'm not making faces , but I 'm tired of hearing you talk as if you thought I adored him and must be in the seventh heaven because I was going to marry him , you romantic child . '' `` Does Randall know you feel like this ? '' asked Janet in a low tone . `` No . Randall is like all men -- vain and self-satisfied -- and believes I 'm crazy about him . It 's just as well to let him think so , until we 're safely married anyhow . Randall has some romantic notions too , and I 'm not sure that he 'd marry me if he knew , in spite of his three years ' devotion . And I have no intention of being jilted three weeks before my wedding day . '' Avery laughed again , and tossed away the core of her apple . Janet , who had been very pale , went crimson and lovely . She could not endure hearing Randall criticized . `` Vain and self-satisfied '' -- when there was never a man less so ! She was horrified to feel that she almost hated Avery -- Avery who did not love Randall .
`` What a pity Randall did n't take a fancy XXXXX you instead of me , Janet , '' said Avery teasingly .
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