"I am so much pleased, and so will Mr.Evans be when he hears the news.

Now I must ask you to excuse me if I hurry past, for I ought to wire him at once.

I can get back to Boston to-night." The woman had left them, with a swish of a frilled silk petticoat under a tailored skirt, when Sylvia looked at Lucinda.

"You ain't goin' to ?" said she.
"No." "But you said so." "You'd say anything to get rid of them.

I've said no till I found out they wouldn't take it, so then I began to say yes.