For all that a still more anxious look came
into his face. He began pacing the floor, buried in deep thought, his
thumbs hooked behind his back. At last he stopped and took her hand.
"Dear Nancy, if anything should happen to you it would break my heart.
Don't be angry, it is only the major; but yo' talk with him has so
disturbed me that I am determined to secure you against personal loss."
Miss Nancy raised her eyes wonderingly. She evidently did not catch
his meaning.
"You have been good enough, my dear, to advance me certain sums of
money which I still owe. I want to pay these now."
"But, George, you"--
"My dearest Nancy,"--and he stooped down, and kissed her cheek,--"I
will have my way. Of co'se you didn't mean anything, only I cannot let
another hour pass with these accounts unsettled. Think, Nancy; it is
my right. The delay affects my honor."
The little lady dropped her knitting on the floor, and looked at me
in a helpless way.
The colonel opened the table drawer, and handed me pen and ink.
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