And you and your Phil don't quarrel yet ?" "No indeed! not the first cross word yet.

Mamma calls us her turtle-doves: says we're always billing and cooing.

Ah, Elsie, how beautiful you are! I've always thought you just as lovely as possible, yet there's an added something--I can't divine what--that increases even your peerless attractions." "O Lucy, Lucy, still a flatterer!" laughed her friend.
"Yet you've come back to us single," Lucy went on, ignoring the interruption, "though we all know you had ever so many good offers.

Pray, do you intend to remain single all your days ?" At that, Elsie's face dimpled all over with blushes and smiles.
Lucy signed to the nurse to take the babe, and as the woman walked away with it in her arms, turned eagerly to her friend.
"Now do tell me; for I'm sure you are not going to live single.

Shall we have the pleasure of hailing you as duchess yet ?" "No, Lucy; I intend to marry; am actually engaged, but not to a foreigner." "Dear me! I don't believe I could have resisted the title.