"Ah, but it is good to have you, my girl," he exclaimed, delighted beyond words that she permitted this freedom.

"Since when?
Tell us all about it." "Oh, since always.

It was ever so long before I came to think of you--to, well, to think about--I mean to remember--oh, you know what I mean.

But when I did, oh, THEN!" "Then what ?" "I don't know--I haven't thought--that way long enough to know." "But you said you thought it must have been me always." "I know; but that was different--oh, I'm all mixed up.

I'm so nervous and trembly now.