“Yes, rather so.”
“Taller than I?”
“Yes; you are not above what I should call medium height.”
“I may grow.”
“True; there is time for that.”
“Should you like me better then?” Lettice gave a side glance, and then dropped her curly black lashes over her big blue eyes.
Her cousin laughed. “You would coquet even with me, I verily believe; with me, who am as good as married.”
The violet eyes opened wide. “I am not trying to at all. Would I coquet with my blood cousin, who, moreover, is a double cousin?”
“Perhaps not, if you could help it; but you do coquet even with Pat Flynn.”
“Now, Cousin Joe, you are trying to tease me.”