"I am extremely hungry, my dear.

I can't live on love, you know." "Live on love ?" Lucy stared, and Archie laughed quietly.
"Oh yes, you may smile and look astonished;" went on the Professor good-humoredly, "but science does not destroy the primeval instincts entirely.

Lucy, my dear," he took her hand and patted it, "while in London and in lodgings, it was borne in upon me forcibly how lonely I was and how lonely I would be when you married our young friend yonder.
I had intended to come down to-morrow, but to-night, such was my feeling of loneliness that I considered favorably your idea that I should find a second helpmate in Mrs.Jasher.I have always had a profound admiration for that lady, and so--on the spur of the moment, as I may say--I decided to come down this evening and propose." "Oh," Lucy clapped her hands, very well satisfied with the unexpected news, "and have you ?" "Mrs.Jasher," said the Professor gravely, "did me the honor to promise to become my wife this evening." "She will become your wife this evening ?" said Archie, smiling.
Braddock, with one of those odd twists of humor which were characteristic of him, became irascible.
"Confound it, sir, don't I speak English," he snapped, with his eyes glaring rebuke.

"She promised this evening to become Mrs.Braddock.
We shall marry--so we have arranged--in the springtime, which is the natural pairing season for human beings as well as for birds.

And I am glad to say that Mrs.Jasher takes a deep interest in archaeology." "And, what is more, she is a splendid housekeeper," said Lucy.
The temporary anger of the Professor vanished.