"So you see there are untold possibilities just in a name.

Remember that.

Just suppose _you_, as Mary Jane, should beg a home in a feminine household--say in Miss Billy's, for instance!" "I'd like to," retorted Arkwright, with sudden warmth.
Calderwell stared a little.
The other laughed shamefacedly.
"Oh, it's only that I happen to have a devouring curiosity to meet that special young lady.

I sing her songs (you know she's written some dandies!), I've heard a lot about her, and I've seen her picture." (He did not add that he had also purloined that same picture from his mother's bureau--the picture being a gift from Aunt Hannah.) "So you see I would, indeed, like to occupy a corner in the fair Miss Billy's household.

I could write to Aunt Hannah and beg a home with her, you know; eh ?" "Of course! Why don't you--'Mary Jane' ?" laughed Calderwell.