ech as he had always known speech. In all his wonderful array of
terminology there were no words fitted to this undreamed need; he had to
discover them somehow, by main strength make them up for himself; and
they came out stammering, hard-wrung, bearing new upon their rough faces
the mint-mark of his own heart. Perhaps she did not prize them any the
less on that account.

"I'm glad that you love me that way--Henry. I must call you Henry
now--mustn't I, Henry?"

"Do you know," she said, after a time, "I am--_almost_ weakening about
giving our money for a Home. Somehow, I'd so like for you to have it, so
that--"

She felt a little shiver run through him.

"No, no! I could not bear to touch it. We shall be far happier--"

"You could stop work, buy yourself comforts, pleasures, trips. It is a
mad thing," she teased, "to give away money.... Oh, little Doctor--I
can't breathe if you hold me--so tight."

"About the name," he said presently, "I--dislike to oppose you, but I
cannot--I cannot--"

"Well, I've decided to change it, Henry, in deference to your wishes."

"I am extremely glad. I myself know a name--"

"Instead of calling it the Henry G. Surface Home--"

Suddenly she drew away from him, leaving behind both her hands for a
keepsake, and raised to him a look so luminous and radiant that he felt
himself awed before it, like one who with impious feet has blundered
upon holy ground.

"I am going to call it the Henry G. Surface _Junior_ Home. Do you know
any name for a Home so pretty as that?"

"No, no, I--can't let you--"

But she cried him down passionately, saying: "Yes, that is _our_ name
now, and we are going to make it honorable."

From his place beside the sociological bookcase--perhaps faunal
naturalists can tell us why--the great pleasure-dog Behemoth, whose
presence they had both forgotten, raised his leonine head and gave a
sharp, joyous bark.

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