"
"If I'd been here--" said Meldon, and then paused.
"What would you have done?"
"I'd have done what I'm going to do now that I'm back."
"And what's that?"
"Throw them together," said Meldon. "Insist on his being constantly
with her until he begins to appreciate her charm. I defy any one, any
one who's not already married, to resist Miss King if she looks at him
out of the corners of her eyes as she did at me the other day."
"She won't do that," said the Major. "No woman would, once she had
seen Simpkins."
"Oh, she'll do it all right. Don't you fret about that. All I have
to do is to give her a proper opportunity by throwing them together a
bit."
"I don't quite see how you're going to do that if Simpkins won't go
near her."
"You wouldn't see, of course. Indeed you couldn't, because I don't
quite know myself yet how it is to be managed. I shall have to think
it all over very carefully. I may have to spend the greater part of
the night considering the matter; but one thing you may be quite
confident about, Major, and that is that when I say they are to be
thrown together, they will be thrown together.
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