You see that he remembers it, Miss Alice!" She went down the stairs with him, and he continued to impress this upon her until he had gone out of the front door.

And even after that, the husky voice called back from the darkness, as he went to his car, "Don't forget, Miss Alice; let him take his own time.

We always want him, but we want him to get good and well first.

Good-night, good-night, young lady!" When she closed the door her mother came from the farther end of the "living-room," where there was no light; and Alice turned to her.
"I can't help liking that old man, mama," she said.

"He always sounds so--well, so solid and honest and friendly! I do like him." But Mrs.Adams failed in sympathy upon this point.