"We fell in love because we couldn't help it, and this is the penalty--an announcement party." "I'll never quite understand why _you_ fell," said he dubiously.
"I think we were both too young to know," she responded.

"It seems to me that we've been in love ever since we were babies." "And it never hurts a baby to fall, you know," said he, with fine logic.
"Of course it may cripple 'em permanently, but they don't know how it happened." For some moments she caressed his brown hair in silence, the smile lingering on her lips after it had left her eyes.

His eyes closed dreamily under the gentle touch of her fingers.

"But, dear," she said, "this is no joking matter.

We have been engaged for nearly three months and not a soul knows of it.