17/18 Is it not quaint--the tangle of shrubbery all over jasmine ?--and those are royal poincianas, if you please--and there's a great garden beyond and most delectable orange groves where you and I and the family and Alonzo will wander and eat pine-oranges and king-oranges and mandarins and--oh, well! Are you going to call on Mr.Cardross to-morrow ?" "Yes," he said, "I'll have to see Mr.Cardross at once. And after that, what am I to do to meet you ?" "I will consider the matter," she said; and bending slightly toward him: "Am I to be disappointed in you? You are right; I am not very old, yet. Be nice to me in your thoughts. I have never before done such a thing as this: I never could again. |