Yet I imagine she succeeded in satisfying him that
she was--well, over head and ears in love! So she was with some one
else."
"Still, with so many awful examples," suggested Bridget, "you will
naturally be cautious. For your own part, you would not put the
momentous question to any woman unless you had the most perfect
confidence----"
"Oh, I have!" he replied, more enthusiastically than she had ever heard
him speak. "Being human, I suppose I am bound to assume there must be
blemishes about her somewhere--I don't know where! But," Jimmy
continued, "of one thing I am as certain as a man can be of anything in
this world."
"What is that?" faltered Bridget.
"Her utter incapability of the remotest shadow of deception. At least
I know that when the time comes to put my fate to the touch, she will
answer with absolute honesty. If she loves me I shall be the most
fortunate beggar under the sun, and if unhappily she doesn't, she will
say so _sans phrase_."
"You put a premium on candour!" she suggested.
"Why, yes," he answered. "Whatever I may be I am not very intolerant,
but double dealing is the one thing I think I might find it impossible
to forgive.
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