e to do it. Her son
will be twenty-one next summer, and though I hope he will always be
respectful and obedient, as far as possible, to his mother's wishes,
still, she will have to remember there are other wishes in this world
besides hers. I trust she will be nice about the discovery. Mrs.
Sloane is a very handsome woman, but spoiled. And very fond of having
her own way.

We are not apt to have much money, Billy and I. We have often said we
thought young people ought to do their own scrambling, and I think
that's what we'll have to do, as our fathers think much the same way.
I'm not fond of herbs, but I can stand a dinner of them if Billy can,
and besides, it will be nice for us to work up together and not have
too quick a shove. And another thing we agree about. We know the
thing that counts most, and we are going to keep a good deal of it on
hand. Father says neither poverty nor riches can kill love if it is
the right sort. I know Billy's is the right sort, but I am crazy to
hear him put it into words.

He will have traveled thousands of miles to say something he could have
written, to tell me I am engaged to him and I might as well understand
it; but there won't be an extra sentence in the way he says it. He
will be here to-morrow, and I bet the best thing I've got that all he
will say is: "Kitty Canary, we are going to decide right now on the day
and the month and the year. I will wait until you get through college,
as you say I've got to, but I won't wait a day longer. Let's get a
calendar and work it out."

And I, being a weak-minded person at times, will say, "All right,
Billy," and then--

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