[A Great Success by Mrs Humphry Ward]@TWC D-Link bookA Great Success CHAPTER VI 48/50
He saw her anew; he loved her anew. "Why did you look so pretty to-night? You little witch!" he murmured in her ear, as he held her close to him. "Arthur!"-- she drew herself away from him.
"_Did_ I look pretty? Honour bright!" "Delicious! How often am I to say it ?" "You'd better not.
Don't wake the devil in me, Arthur! It's all this tea-gown.
If you go on like this, I shall have to buy one like it." "Buy a dozen!" he said joyously.
"Look there, Doris--you see that path? Let's go on to the moor a little." Out they crept, like truant children, through the wood-path and out upon the moor.
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