s are chatting over their darling's
future. Meanwhile the fiances have escaped into the back parlor.

Virginia--Where are you leading me to, John?

John--I wish to tell you, while others forget us, how happy I am to
marry you--you, so winning, so witty, the gem of Vassar College.

Virginia--Oh! how many compliments to a poor graduate who only won the
premium of rhetoric, and was second best in geometry.

John--I love you, and worship you just as you are.

V.--Oh, my friend, how anaphorical, and especially how epanaletical.

J.--I don't understand.

V.--I mean that you repeat yourself. It is the custom of lovers to abuse
of the gorgiaques figures from the very protasis and exordium.

J.--I love you because you are accomplished and perfect.

V.--Did I not know you, I should think that you favored asteisin and
ethossoia.

J. (Somewhat abashed.)--Ah! do you see * * *

V.--Why this aposiopesis?

J.--Aposiopesis!

V.--This reticence?

J.--That is clearer. I acknowledge that the expressions you use annoy
and trouble me.

V.--You, on your side, speak a language stamped with schematism, while
to be correct, even in making love, your language should be discursive.
Allow me to tell you so frankly.

J.--Anyhow, you do not doubt my love?

V.--I pardon this epitrope, but pray use less metaphor and more litotes
in the prosopography you dedicate to my modest entity--

J.--What will you? Men love women; I am a man; therefore, I love you.

V.--Your syllogism is perfect in its premises, but the conclusion is
false.

J.--Oh! you are a cruel angel!

V.--I like that catachresis, but once again I repeat, I am practical,
and prefer synedoche.

J. [Very much perplexed.]--Will you continue the conversation in the
garden?

V.--Yes. (They go into the garden.) Look, here is a very lovely
parallelogram of green surrounded by petasites. Let us sit under those
maritamboues will you?

J.--Willingly! Ah! here I am happy! My heart fills with joy; it seems to
me it contains the universe.

V.--You are speaking pure Spinozism.

J.--When I think that you will be my wife, and I your husband! What will
be our destiny!

V.--The equation being given you are looking for the unknown quantity.
Like you, I shall await the co-efficient.

J. (Who is determined to follow out his own thoughts)--With the world of
constellations above us, and nature surrounding us, admire with me those
orbs sending us their pure light. Look up there a