said Eudora with her calm, grand air and with no trace of a smile.

"Then that means that you say yes, Eudora?"

For the first time Eudora gave a startled glance at him. "Didn't you
know?" she gasped.

"How should I? You had not said yes really, dear."

"Do you think," said Eudora Yates, "that I am not too proud to allow you
to ask me if my answer were not yes?"

"So that is the reason you always ran away from me, years ago, so that I
never had a chance to ask you?"

"Of course," said Eudora. "No woman of my family ever allows a
declaration which she does not intend to accept. I was always taught
that by my mother."

Then a small but insistent cry rent the air. "The baby is awake!" cried
Eudora, and ran, or, rather, paced swiftly--Eudora had been taught never
to run--and Lawton followed. It was he who finally quieted the child,
holding the little thing in his arms.

But the baby, before that, cried so long and lustily that all the women
in the Glynn house opposite were on the alert, and also some of the
friends who were calling there. Abby Simson was one.

"Harry Lawton has been there over an hour now," said Abby, while the
wailing continued, "and I know as well as I want to that there will be a
wedding."

"I wonder he doesn't object to that adopted baby," said Julia
Esterbrook.

"I know one thing," said Abby Simson. "It must be a boy baby, it hollers
so."

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