16/24 He's there on the verandah smoking with your Lord Leighton." "Oh! Then, of course, you're going to marry him ?" "I'm sorry to say Dad doesn't want me to. With all his genius and learning he is a perfect child in that sort of thing. He has no idea of Natural Selection. When I had to tell Mark that Dad wouldn't let me marry him, he picked me up out of a chair in the verandah there, where your father and mine are sitting, and kissed me three times." "And I'll gamble ten cents that you kissed him back. |