`` Now , are you going to tell us your news ? '' asked Felicity impatiently . `` Miss Reade IS going to be married , '' said the Story Girl . `` She told me so last night . She is going to be married in a fortnight 's time . '' `` Who to ? '' exclaimed the girls . `` To '' -- the Story Girl threw a defiant glance at me as if to say , `` You ca n't spoil the surprise of THIS , anyway , '' -- `` to -- the Awkward Man . '' For a few moments amazement literally held us dumb . `` You 're not in earnest , Sara Stanley ? '' gasped Felicity at last . `` Indeed I am . I thought you 'd be astonished . But I was n't . I 've suspected it all summer , from little things I 've noticed . Do n't you remember that evening last spring when I went a piece with Miss Reade and told you when I came back that a story was growing ? I guessed it from the way the Awkward Man looked at her when I stopped to speak to him over his garden fence . '' `` But -- the Awkward Man ! '' said Felicity helplessly . `` It does n't seem possible .
Did Miss XXXXX tell you HERSELF ? ''
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