Do you remember when you
asked me, all of a sudden, whether I should like to be your wife?
You weren't a fool then."
"But you knew what was coming."
"Not a bit of it. I knew it wasn't coming. I had quite made up my
mind about that. I was as sure of it;--oh, as sure of it as I am
that I've got you now. And then it came;--like a great thunderclap."
"A thunderclap, Mary!"
"Well;--yes. I wasn't quite sure at first. You might have been
laughing at me;--mightn't you?"
"Just the kind of joke for me!"
"How was I to understand it all in a moment? And you made me repeat
all those words. I believed it then, or I shouldn't have said them.
I knew that must be serious." And so she deified him, and sat at
his feet looking up into his eyes, and fooled him for a while into
the most perfect happiness that a man ever knows in this world. But
she was not altogether happy herself till she had got Larry to come
to her at the house at Bragton and swear to her that he would be
her friend.
THE END
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