"Go on!" She took his hand and held it.

"Nick darling, do you remember how I came and kept house for you--years ago, at Redlands, when I was a child ?" "Rather!" said Nick.

"Bully, wasn't it ?" She hesitated a little.

"Nick, I'm going to make a perfectly awful suggestion." "Don't mind me!" said Nick.
She laughed faintly.

"I don't, dear,--formidable as you can be.