“What started her?”
“She said she was thinking of giving you old Mr. Baines’s gold watch and chain—if you behaved yourself.”
“Thank you for nothing!” said Dick. “I don’t want it.”
“Have you seen it?”
“Have I seen it? I should say I had seen it. She’s mentioned it once or twice before.”
“Oh! I didn’t know.”
“I don’t see myself carting that thing about. I much prefer my own. What do you think of it?”
“Of course it is rather clumsy,” said Lily. “But if she offered it to you, you couldn’t refuse it, and you’d simply have to wear it.”
“Well, then,” said Dick, “I must try to behave myself just badly enough to keep off the watch, but not badly enough to upset her notions about wedding-presents.”
“Poor old thing!” Lily murmured, compassionately.