Oh, Kitty, girl, can't we bring back the old days as they were before you went away ?" "Hush, Phil," she said, almost as she would have spoken to one of her boy brothers.
But he went on recklessly.

"No, I'm going to speak to-night.

Ever since you came home you have refused to listen to me--you have put me off--made me keep still.

I want you to tell me, Kitty, if I were like Honorable Patches, would it make any difference ?" "I do not know Mr.Patches," she answered.
"You met him to-day; and you know what I mean.

Would it make any difference if I were like him ?" "Why, Phil, dear, how can I answer such a question?
I do not know." "Then it's not because I belong here in this country instead of back East in some city that has made you change ?" "I have changed, I suppose, because I have become a woman, Phil, as you have become a man." "Yes, I have become a man," he returned, "but I have not changed, except that the boy's love has become a man's love.