"And aren't we engaged?" he pleaded.
"Not a bit of it, Mr. Tom Fuller; I am just as free as air; please to remember that."
"Oh, Elsie!"
"And Elsie oh!" cried she. "But it's true! You said all sorts of foolish things about love, and I let you talk, but what right have you to say we are engaged?"
Tom instantly became so nervous that he could not sit still.
"Oh, Elsie, Elsie, how can you?" he pleaded.
"Now, aren't you deliciously miserable," said Elsie; "that is the way I like to see you; it's your duty, sir."
"I wouldn't think you so cruel at such a time."
"Oh, wouldn't you? And pray what right have you to think at all; no man has a right; that's another female privilege."
"You are worse than the Women's Rights people," said he.