Please don't let us go all over that again when we've done it so many times." "No, let's don't," agreed the man, cheerfully.

"And we don't have to, either, if you'll only say 'yes,' now right away, without any more fuss." Billy sighed impatiently.
"Hugh, won't you understand that I'm serious ?" she cried; then she turned suddenly, with a peculiar flash in her eyes.
"Hugh, I don't believe Bertram himself could make love any more nonsensically than you can!" Calderwell laughed, but he frowned, too; and again he threw into Billy's face that keenly questioning glance.

He said something--a light something--that brought the laugh to Billy's lips in spite of herself; but he was still frowning when he left the house some minutes later, and the shadow was not gone from his eyes..