"Of course," he said. "If that fails there is another
method of aranging things, although you may not care to have the
Funeral Baked Meats set fourth to grace the Marriage Table. If
she refuses me, we might become engaged. You and I."
To proposals in one day. Ye gods!
I was obliged therfore to tell him I was already engaged,
and he looked very queer, especialy when I told him to whom it
was.
"Pup!" he said, in a manner which I excused because of his
natural feelings at being preceded. "And of course this is the
real thing?"
"I am not one to change easily, Carter" I said. "When I
give I give freely. A thing like this, with me, is to Eternaty,
and even beyond."
He is usualy most polite, but he got up then and said:
"Well, I'm dammed."
He went away soon after, and left Sis and me to sit alone,
not speaking, because when she is angry she will not speak to me
for days at a time. But I found a Magazine picture of a Duchess
in a nurse's dress and wearing a fringe, which is English for
bangs, and put it on her dressing table.
I felt that this was subtile and would sink in.
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