When she was only fifteen, there was a man at my brother Gardiner's in town so much in love with her that my sister-in-law was sure he would make her an offer before we came away.

But, however, he did not.

Perhaps he thought her too young.

However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were." "And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently.

"There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way.