"Of course, it is unusual, but who cares?
Do you ?" "No, I don't," said Annie.

They leaned together over the yellow cat and kissed each other.
[Illustration: They leaned together over the yellow cat and kissed each other] "But what an absurd minister's wife I shall be," said Annie.

"To think of your marrying a girl who has staid at home from church and played cards with her grandmother!" "I am not at all sure," said Von Rosen, "that you do not get more benefit, more spiritual benefit, than you would have done from my sermons." "I think," said Annie, "that you are just about as funny a minister as I shall be a minister's wife." "I never thought I should be married at all." "Why not ?" "I did not care for women." "Then why do you now ?" "Because you are a woman." Then there was a sudden movement in front of them.

The leaf-shadows flickered; the cat jumped down from Annie's lap and ran away, his great yellow plume of tail waving angrily, and Margaret Edes stood before them.

She was faultlessly dressed as usual.