What he said need not be told: how, while all the rest laughed and sang, the Privileged Infant was serious; and how he appealed to Katy's sympathies by threatening to jump off into the lake; and how he told her that they must be married, and have it all over at once.

Then, when it was all over, Albert wouldn't feel bad about it any more.

Brothers never did.
When he and Albert should get to be brothers-in-law, they'd get on splendidly.

By George! Some such talk as this he had as they sailed up and down the lake.

Just what it was will never be known, whether he planned an elopement that very night, or on Sunday night, or on the night which they must pass in Red Owl Landing, nobody knows.