Promise to marry me a year from to-day, and leave the rest to me--will you ?' 'Yes--but promise me one thing, too.

Do not resign to-morrow, nor next week, as I know you mean to do.

Take a month to think it over, and to look about you.

You are so impulsive--well, so generous--that you are capable of sending in your resignation to-morrow.' 'It is already written,' Giovanni answered.

'I was going to send it in to-night.' 'I knew it! But you must not.