10/20 "I have made up my mind, and I will do it. They want the wedding to be soon. Where's the use of lingering over these things." "You speak somehow, Trixie, I mean Bee, my girl, as if you didn't--didn't quite like it," said the mother, then a trace of anxiety coming into her smooth, contented voice: "You shan't have him, I mean he shan't have you, unless you want him with your whole heart, Bee, my darling." "Mother," said Beatrice, kneeling down by her, and putting her arms round her neck, "it is not given to all girls to want a thing with their whole heart. I have always been happy, always filled, always content. |