Floyd Grandon's Honor

" ...] They retrace their steps, and Mrs. Grandon apologizes to her guest, who is sweetness itself, quite different from the Irene Stanwood of the past. There is a stir, and everybody admits that it is time to retire. Floyd intercepts Laura in the hall, and wonders he has not remarked the flash of the diamond earlier, as she raises her plump hand. "Mother has been telling me," he says, with a wise, curious smile. "Let me congratulate you. To-morrow we will talk it over and arrange everything. I will be your banker for the present. Only-are you quite sure I shall like the young man?" And he holds her in a tender clasp. "You cannot help it O Floyd, how good you are, and how very, very happy it makes me I began to feel ...]."