"I want you so much, Dora,--I've wanted you ever since I first met you--on that little steamboat, on the way to Putnam Hall." "Oh, Dick, what an idea! Why, you hardly knew me then!" "Never mind, I knew you well enough." "What a long time ago that was," murmured the girl.

She was still gazing fully into his eyes.
"Yes, it was a long time ago, and yet, somehow, it seems an awfully short time, too.

But, Dora, you haven't said yes yet.

Won't you please say yes ?" he pleaded, in a lower voice, as Tom and the others started to rejoin them.
"Yes," she murmured, her face becoming a rosy red.

"Yes.