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"You were sure of me all the time, Graydon," she remonstrated "I tried to hide it, but I couldn't You ht me a perfect fool all these months"

"You are very much mistaken, if you please You did hide it so successfully at times, that I was sick with uncertainty"

"Well, it's all over now," she sreat relief

"All over but the--the wedding," he said

"Oh, that's a long way off Let's not worry over that, Graydon"

"A long way off? Nonsense! I won't wait"

"Won't?"

"I should have said can't Let's see; this is February March, dearest?"

"Graydon, you are so irl siement Next winter"

"Next what? That's nearly a year, Jane It's absurd! I'hty noble of you, too But I just can't, dearest No one ever docs"

"Don't--don't you think I' up a bit

She looked at his strong figure and into his earnest eyes and laughed, so adorably, that his resentive you a hoive you the best I have all , Graydon," she said earnestly "Everyone says that of you I' of that It isn't the house I care for It's the home You must let me choose the day"

"I suppose it's customary," he said at last "June is the month for brides, letI had decided on January next, but now I ahingly

"Certainly," she said unblushingly "Just as you had decided on the early spring But, listen, dear, I a to say September of this year"

"One, two, three--seven months They seem like years, Jane You won't say June?"

"Please, please let me have some of the perquisites," she pleaded "It hasn't seemed at all like a proposal I've really been cheated of that, you must remeive you an answer in three days"

"Granted I'll admit it wasn't the sort of proposal one reads about in novels---"

"But it was precisely as they are in real life, I'm sure No one has a stereotyped proposal anythings before a girl can say no"

"Ah, I see it has happened to you," he said, jealous at once