Will you not listen ?" "I have been thanked--suitably....

I will say adieu, sir." "Would you--would you so far favour me as to make known to me your name ?" I said, stammering a little.
"Lois is my name," she said indifferently.
"No more than that ?" "No more than that." How it was now going with me I did not clearly understand, but it appeared to be my instinct not to let her slip away into the world without something more friendly said--some truer gratitude expressed--some warmth.
"Lois," I said very gravely, "what we Americans give to our country demands no ignoble reward.

Therefore, I offer none of any sort.

Yet, because you have been a good comrade to me--and because now we are about to go our different ways into the world before us--I ask of you two things.

May I do so ?" After a moment, looking away from me across the meadow: "Ask," she said.
"Then the first is--will you take my hand in adieu--and let us part as good soldiers part ?" Still gazing absently across the meadow, she extended her hand.