."

She just brushed Tony's cheek with her lips, and evaded him when he
tried to enfold her in his arms.

"Myra, darling, I want to fix a date for our wedding," said Tony.
"Let's get married before the Season is over, or early in the Autumn,
and spend a long honeymoon in the East or in the South Seas. I want to
make you all mine as soon as possible, dear. Let's arrange to get
married next month."

Myra's smile faded, and she shook her red-gold head.

"Tony, darlint, I don't want to marry you just yet," she answered
gently. "I told you when we became engaged that you must give me time
to get accustomed to the idea of becoming your wife, time to try to
fall in love with you first."

"Why not reverse the usual procedure, marry me first and fall in love
with me after?" suggested Tony, and again Myra shook her head.

"I love taking risks, Tony, but that would be too great a risk," she
responded. "It would be ghastly for us both if I married you and found
myself incapable of loving you, and tragic if I fell in love with
somebody else later. Please be patient, Tony. I am really and truly
trying to fall in love with you."

"And you know I am tremendously in love with you, Myra, and want to
make you all my own," said Tony, capturing her hands. "I know I can
make you love me, and we will be enormously happy after we are married.
Do be a darling and let me fix a date for our wedding."

"Be a dear, Tony, and don't press me," pleaded Myra. "We are happy
enough as we are, and since we became engaged and Aunt Clarissa ceased
to badger me, I've been having a gorgeous time. Let's postpone fixing
a date for our marriage until next Spring, by which time I may be sure
of my own heart. Perhaps it's an old-fashioned idea, but I'd like to
be in love with the man I marry."

"I say, Myra!" exclaimed Tony, as if struck by a sudden idea, after a
few moments of silence. "I say! A promise is a promise, you know.
You won't throw me over and make me look and feel an ass, will you, if
you should happen to meet someone you think you like better than me?
You've promised to be my wife, you know."

"Yes, I know, Tony, but I also know you are too much of a sportsman to
hold me to my promise if I should happen to fall in love with another
man," Myra responded. "That isn't in the least likely to happen, Tony
dear, and I am truly trying to love you in the way a girl should love
the man she has promised to marry, as I have already told