Everybody else was clapping and laughing, when suddenly the door burst open and there stood Jerry Junior! He looked straight at me and growled: "'What are you kids making such an infernal racket about ?'" She shut her eyes.
"Aunt Hazel, Dad, just think.

He was my first love.

His picture was at that moment in a locket around my neck.

And he called me a _kid_!" "And you've never seen him since ?" Miss Hazel's smile expressed amused indulgence.
Constance shook her head.
"He's always been away when I've visited Nan--and for six years I've been waiting." She straightened up with an air of determination.

"But now, if he's on the continent of Europe, I'll get him!" "And what shall you do with him ?" her father mildly inquired.
"Do with him?
I'll make him take it back; I'll make him eat that word kid!" "H'm!" said her father.