I--" "Pshaw! He needn't worry! You tell him we'll look after him: we'll build him a little stone bank in the backyard, if he busts up, and he can go and put his pennies in it every morning.

That'll keep him just as happy as he ever was!" He kissed her.

"Good-night, I'm going to tell Lucy good-bye.

Don't sit up for me." She walked to the front gate with him, still holding his hand, and he told her again not to "sit up" for him.
"Yes, I will," she laughed.

"You won't be very late." "Well--it's my last night." "But I know Lucy, and she knows I want to see you, too, your last night.
You'll see: she'll send you home promptly at eleven!" But she was mistaken: Lucy sent him home promptly at ten..