Please pretend you do!" Her look of appeal, the way in which she put her plump little hands together, as if about to say her prayers, brought it all back to Tommy.

The one thing he was not certain of was whether he had proposed to her.
It was the one thing of which she was certain.
"You think I can forget so soon," he replied reproachfully, but carefully.
"Then tell me my name," said she; she thought it might lead to his mentioning his own.
"I don't know what it is now.

It was Mrs.Jerry once." "It is Mrs.Jerry still." "Then you did not marry him, after all ?" No wild joy had surged to his face, but when she answered yes, he nodded his head with gentle melancholy three times.

He had not the smallest desire to deceive the lady; he was simply an actor who had got his cue and liked his part.
[Illustration: "But my friends still call me Mrs.Jerry," she said softly.] "But my friends still call me Mrs.Jerry," she said softly.

"I suppose it suits me somehow." "You will always be Mrs.Jerry to me," he replied huskily.