Will you ?" She leaned swiftly toward him, placed both hands on his shoulders.
"You've a perfectly new girl to deal with," she said, looking him in the eyes;--"a miracle of meekness and patience that is rather certain to turn into a dreadful, frowsy old hausfrau some day.

But that's the kind you wanted....

It's none of my doings--" "Valerie!" "What ?" "You darling!--do you mean--" She closed his lips with hers.
"Silence," she said; "we have plenty to talk over before the hour arrives for me to be a door-mat.

I _won't_ be a door-mat when I'm trying to be happy over a perfectly good supper!...

Besides I want to torture you while there's still time.