I don't see it at all," she declared with roguish merriment.

"Moreover, I think that some day, some one of them--will marry, Sir Doubtful!" Calderwell threw a quick glance into her eyes.

Evidently something he saw there sent a swift shadow to his own.

He waited a moment, then asked abruptly: "Billy, WON'T you marry me ?" Billy frowned, though her eyes still laughed.
"Hugh, I told you not to ask me that again," she demurred.
"And I told you not to ask impossibilities of me," he retorted imperturbably.

"Billy, won't you, now--seriously ?" "Seriously, no, Hugh.