And oh, Mr Armstrong, if you would only wait I would love to marry you some day! How soon shall I be big enough ?" This was getting embarrassing.

But the tutor was in a tender mood, and had it not in his heart to thwart the little Leap-year maid.

"Time flies fast," said he; "you'll be grown up before we know where we all are." She sighed.
"I know you'd sooner have Rosalind.

But she doesn't care for you as much as I do.

She likes Roger best; but I don't; I like you fifty thousand times better.