"I suppose she thinks that I am going to be plugged.

Perhaps I am! I wonder how Bessie would take it.

She would be awfully cut up, but I expect that she would get over it pretty soon.

Now I don't think that Jess would shake off a thing of that sort in a hurry.

That is just the difference between the two; the one is all flower and the other is all root." Then he fell to wondering how Bessie was, and what she was doing, and if she missed him as much as he missed her, and so on, till his mind came back to Jess, and he reflected what a charming companion she was, and how thoughtful and kind, and breathed a secret hope that she would continue to live with them after they were married.