"Lobelia, I insist upon knowing!"
"Oh, Peggy, please don't ask me!"
"But I will ask you. I do ask you. What is it that you are afraid of? I shall find out sooner or later, so you might as well give up at once and tell me."
Lobelia looked around her uneasily. She and Peggy were sitting in a cosy little hollow under the lee of a great brown