Across the Counter
“your brother-in-law?” Katherine actually found it difficult to draw breath in the unspeakable shock of the moment. “But I don’t understand. How ... how can he?”“By the simple process of getting engaged to my sister, it seems,” replied Paul Kendale disagreeably, and she was aware that he was regarding her with more attention than she could have wished. “You seem surprised.”“I ... am,” she said helplessly.“Why?” he wanted to know.She could not find an appropriate answer to that on the instant. An...d he went on in a dryly speculative tone, “Perhaps you mean that he didn’t exactly strike you as the marrying kind?”“Oh—” Katherine groped for words and somehow steadied her voice “—I wouldn’t say that.”She could hardly have thought of him more certainly as the marrying kind, of course. Only he was to marry her—her. Not this unknown Kendale girl whom he couldn’t have known for more than a month.“Did you know him especially well?”This time the man at the desk did not look directly at her.MoreLess
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