13/20 Let him join in our fun;" and, without waiting for further objections, she brought him in and gave him a chair. "If you had shut the door on me I should have asked Henry to send me back to Europe. Mary's right, Madge; you do look charming." And so she did, blushing and laughing in her dainty wrapper, with her long hair falling over her shoulders and fastened by a ribbon. Since crossing your threshold I have become contentment itself. Indeed, I regard myself as the most favored man in the house, for I, first of all, am able to lay my homage at Madge's feet." "Let me warn you from the start that it will prove a stumbling-block in both our paths," said the girl. |