You let me go home with you two or three times--perhaps you remember." Charlotte nodded.
"I never forgot," said Thomas Payne.

"Well, father found it out, and he had a talk with me.

He made me promise to wait till I got through college before I said anything to you; he was doing a good deal for me, you know.

So I waited, and the first thing I knew, when I came home, they said Barney Thayer was waiting on you, and I thought it was all settled and there was nothing more to be done.

I made up my mind to bear it like a man and make the best of it, and I did.