He'll be all right now, if he follows my advice." "Humph! What did Colonel Ebenezer Zane tell him ?" asked Bessie, in disgust.
"Oh, not much.

I simply told him not to lose his nerve; that a woman never meant 'no'; that she often says it only to be made say 'yes.' And I ended up with telling him if she got a little skittish, as thoroughbreds do sometimes, to try a strong arm.

That was my way." "Col.

Zane, if my memory does not fail me, you were as humble and beseeching as the proudest girl could desire." "I beseeching?
Never!" "I hope Alfred's wooing may go well.

I like him very much.