eing. "You don't know what speeding is," he
murmurs; "you don't know----"

The machine, at smooth half-speed, is returning toward the city. "I won't
go with you again," says Dolly.

But she always does. She doesn't like to ride fast, and he does, but she
never lets him ride alone. 'Cause she loves him!

He will have to be more careful now, however. The other evening, as they
sat in the cozy reading-room (lined with editions de luxe) after the
performance, she got upon his knee and, hiding his eyes with her hands so
he could not look at her, whispered something in his ear.

Charles-Norton sat silent a long moment after that. Then he said, as
though speaking to himself: "I wonder if _he_ will--if _he_ will also--if
_he_ will----"

"I wonder; I wonder!" said Dolly, ecstatically, her eyes wide upon a
splendid vision.

"We could keep them down," said Charles-Norton, consideringly, "by
beginning early. By beginning early, with bandages, we could keep them
down----"

To his great amazement, Dolly dissented. "Oh, no, no, no, no!" she cried.
"Oh, he would look so cute with them--just like a little angel! Just like
a little angel, Goosie!"

And Charles-Norton is still wondering about this differentiation in
Dolly's wise little head, wondering why _he_ can, while Goosie--can't.

THE END

Transcriber's notes

The following were identified as spelling or typographic
errors and have been emended as noted.

page 3 - corrected calisthenics

The mirror before which he had been performing his morning
calesthenics faced him uncompromisingly;

page 27 - corrected you're

"Well," he said finally, "maybe your right.

page 41 - corrected telephone

at the sound of the telphone bell.

page 42 - corrected harassing

which had suddenly solved for her the harrassing problem of
the spring hat

page 82 - corrected resonant

As it slid slowly out beneath the resonnant cupola,

page 105 - corrected susurrant

From their feet the meadow spreads, fresh and lush,
sussurant with the hidden flow of a brook,

page 130 - corrected gliding

and upon the stage, giding in from the West like a
Cinderella coach drawn by six white mice,

page 135 - added opening quotation mark

And so I fought it, John, I fought your love.

page 172 - left as is - sizzing as unclear what was correct

and finally he came down to her from the very zenith of the
dome in a sizzing straight