To his mother, he knew, the evening appeared only as one more carefully planned and carelessly neglected opportunity; and the knowledge of this exasperated him in a measure that was absurdly disproportionate to the cause.
"She is so refreshing after the things you hear about other girls," pursued Mrs.Culpeper.

"Poor Mrs.St.John was obliged to go to a rest cure, they say, because of the worry she has had over Geraldine; and the other girls are almost as troublesome, I suppose.

That is why I am so thankful that you should have taken a fancy to Margaret.

She is just the kind of girl I should like to have for a daughter-in-law." "You'll have a long time to wait, Mother.

I don't want to marry anybody until I need a nurse in my old age." He spoke jestingly, but his mother, with her usual tenacity, held fast to the subject.