Everybody says I got the very finest geraniums in the bottoms here." "Goodness, Hepseba," exclaimed old man Gifford, highly delighted; "that ain't his wife.

That's Miss Stevens.

I made the same mistake," and he hawhawed in keen enjoyment.
Hepseba was so evidently overcome with mortification, however, and her huge round face turned so painfully red, that Miss Stevens lost entirely any embarrassment she might otherwise have felt.
"It doesn't matter at all, I assure you, Mrs.Gifford," she said with charming eagerness to set Hepseba at ease.

"I am very fond of geraniums, and I shall plant these slips and take good care of them.

I thank you very, very much for them." As the machine rolled away Hepseba turned to old man Gifford: "I like both of them!" she stated most decisively..