I'll get the desk, if you'll let me act as your amanuensis." "We'll consider that arrangement after you have brought it." "No: you must agree to my proposition first." "Why, what a little tyrant you are!" he laughed.

"Well, I consent.

Now will you please to bring the desk ?" "Yes," she said, jumping up, and crossing the room to where it stood; "and if you are very good, you may write a postscript with your own hand." "I'll do it all with my own hand," he said as she returned to his side.
"Why, Ned!" she exclaimed in surprise, "I thought you were a man of your word!" "And so I am, I trust," he said, smiling at her astonished look, then catching her right hand in his.

"Is not this mine ?" he asked: "did you not give it to me ?--Let me see--nearly two years ago ?" "Yes, I did," she answered, laughing and blushing with pleasure and happiness: "you are right; it is yours.

So you have every right to use it, and must do so." "Ah!" he said, "'a wilful woman will have her way,' I see: there never was a truer saying.