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 Reade tell you HERSELF ? '' `` Yes . '' `` I suppose it must be true then . But how did it ever come about ? He 's SO shy and awkward . How did he ever manage to get up enough spunk to ask her to marry him ? '' `` Maybe she asked him , '' suggested Dan . The Story Girl looked as if she might tell if she would .
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