Will you be ready at ten o'clock ?" "Yes." "I'll bring a gig, and take you like a lady." "Anyway you please.

I'd as lieve walk as ride." "I prefer riding.

Ten o'clock, the day after to-morrow.

Good-by." And he hurried away, provoked, not pleased, at the manifest pleasure he had given.

The woman he loved--inaccessible! The woman he only liked--he could spend the whole day with her.