od as having her get
married. Besides being a good chance to marry over there, the unaform
being becoming to most, especialy of Leila's tipe.

That night, in the drawing room, while Sis sulked and father was out and
mother was ofering the cook more money to go to the country, I said to
Carter Brooks:

"Why don't you stop hanging round, and make her marry you?"

"I'd like to know what's running about in that mad head of yours, Bab,"
he said. "Of course if you say so I'll try, but don't count to much on
it. I don't beleive she'll have me. But why this unseemly haste?"

So I told him, and he understood perfectly, although I did not say that
I had already plited my troth.

"Of course," he said. "If that fails there is another method of aranging
things, although you may not care to have the Funeral Baked Meats set
fourth to grace the Marriage Table. If she refuses me, we might become
engaged. You and I."

To proposals in one day. Ye gods!

I was obliged therfore to tell him I was already engaged, and he looked
very queer, especialy when I told him to whom it was.

"Pup!" he said, in a manner which I excused because of his natural
feelings at being preceded. "And of course this is the real thing?"

"I am not one to change easily, Carter" I said. "When I give I give
freely. A thing like this, with me, is to Eternaty, and even beyond."

He is usualy most polite, but he got up then and said:

"Well, I'm dammed."

He went away soon after, and left Sis and me to sit alone, not speaking,
because when she is angry she will not speak to me for days at a time.
But I found a Magazine picture of a Duchess in a nurse's dress and
wearing a fringe, which is English for bangs, and put it on her dressing
table.

I felt that this was subtile and would sink in.

The next day Jane came around early.

"There's a sail on down town, Bab," she said. "Don't you want to begin
laying away underclothes for your TROUSEAU? You can't begin to soon,
because it takes such a lot."

I have no wish to reflect on Jane in this story. She meant well. But she
knew I had decided to buy an automobile, saying nothing to the Familey
until to late, when I had learned to drive it and it could not be
returned. Also she knew my Income, which was not princly although
suficient.

But she urged me to take my Check Book and go to the sail.

Now, if I have a weakness, it is for fine under things, with ribbon of
a pale pink and everything maching. Althoug