"Sweetheart, let us call it a day. I want to drive you out to Tarrytown
to--"
"Don't," she said, frowning.
"Don't what?" Her immobility an ineffectual stop to his exuberance.
"Come now," wanting to draw her from her chair by the two hands,
swinging them wide and then together; "don't let his nibs bouncing in
that way throw a damper. We were too quick for him, anyway. Don't
believe he saw a thing. And what if he did? He's going to know it
anyhow, and pretty quick, too. I want to shout it from the housetops, I
want to megaphone it up to the stars. Lilly--Lilly-mine! Sweetheart!"
She crowded back into the chair.
"How dared you!"
He fell back with his gesture still wide.
"Why--what? Dared what? Oh, come now, sweetheart, I could wager he
didn't see, and suppose he did? We've nothing to conceal. I'm for
telling him to-day!"
"No. No. No. You played unfair. You took me--unawares. You misunderstood
me horribly--most horribly."
"You mean--"
"Why, you--you _boy!_ What has happened cannot make any difference
between you and me. It was outrageous of you--silly _boy_ you--to--to
take advantage.
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