I am very much afraid of it." The lover looked doubtful and alarmed.
"Don't look like a fool, Alfred, for Heaven's sake!" cried Fanny; but she immediately recovered herself, and said, with a smile, "You see, dear, how I can scold if I want to.

But you'll never let me, I know." Mr.Dinks hoped certainly that he never should.

"But I sha'n't be a very hard husband, Fanny.

I shall let you do pretty much as you want to." "Dearest, I know you will," rejoined his charmer.

"But the thing is now to know whether your mother has seen Hope Wayne." "I'll go and ask her," said Alfred, rising.
"My dear fellow," replied Fanny, with her mouth screwed into a semblance of smiling, "you'll drive me distracted.