If I can only get him committed to Maude while Jerrie is away, my way is clear, for I am quite sure she does not care for Dick, and she would be a fool not to take Tracy Park if she could get it.

And why shouldn't Hal love Maude?
She is pretty, and sweet, and winning, and will some day be an heiress.

Hal may thank his stars to get her, though I hate him as I do poison.' It was Tom who had insisted that Harold's basket should be bought in New York, where there was a better chance, he said, and he had himself selected flowers which he knew were not fresh, and would be still worse twenty-four hours later.
'Why don't you get yours here, if it is the be-best place ?' Will Peterkin had asked him, and he replied: 'Oh, we can't be bothered with more than one basket in the train.

I can find something there.' He did not say what he intended to find, or that baskets were quite too common for him.

But after leaving the young ladies in the evening, he went to a florist's and ordered for Jerrie a book of white daisies, with a rack of purple pansies for it to rest upon.
'That will certainly be unique, and show her that I have taste,' he thought.
For Nina a bouquet was sufficient, while for Ann Eliza Peterkin he ordered nothing.