Glad--
glad! Do you understand, Jasper?"
Jasper looked at her with the eyes of one who, looking through
pain, sees rapture beyond.
"Is it possible?" he said, wonderingly. "Alice--I am so much
older than you--and they call me the Awkward Man--they say I am
unlike other people"--
"You ARE unlike other people," she said softly, "and that is why I
love you. I know now that I must have loved you ever since I saw
you."
"I loved you long before I saw you," said Jasper.
He came close to her and drew her into his arms, tenderly and
reverently, all his shyness and awkwardness swallowed up in the
grace of his great happiness. In the old garden he kissed her
lips and Alice entered into her own.
CHAPTER XXVI
UNCLE BLAIR COMES HOME
It happened that the Story Girl and I both got up very early on
the morning of the Awkward Man's wedding day. Uncle Alec was
going to Charlottetown that day, and I, awakened at daybreak by
the sounds in the kitchen beneath us, remembered that I had
forgotten to ask him to bring me a certain school-book I wanted.
So I hurriedly dressed and hastened down to tell him before he
went. I was joined on the stairs by the Story Girl, who said she
had wakened and, not feeling like going to sleep again, thought
she might as well get up.
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