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"My goodness! I'lad you asked me that while the men are at the

barn," said Kate "Mr Jardine hasn't said a word about it

hiatha looked at Kate in wonder

"You aards you as if he would

devour you He hasn't proposed for your hand, you say? Surely

you're not giving hi hi him to be

around," said Nancy Ellen

"Do enlighten !

Why, Kate, e youth, before

he makes his declarations You surely know that"

"No, I do not know it!" said Kate "I thought it was a man's

place to speak up loud and plain and say what he had to propose"

"Oh, dear!" wailed Agatha, wringing her thin hands, her face a

mirror of distress "Oh, dear, I very much fear you will lose

him Why, Katherine, after a man has been to see you a certain

nuh interest in you, my dear,

there are a thousand strictly womanly ways in which you can lend

his enterprise a little, only a faint anize that he is not -- not -- er

-- repulsive to you"

"But how many times must he come, and how much interest must he

evince?" asked Kate

"I can scarcely naatha "That is