"Perhaps! If the wonder aroused fear."
"Well, they shall have the miracle! To-morrow at ten o'clock it will appear!"
"What?"
"That which I have promised you!"
The girl looked into his face with amazement as though she did not believe what he said. After which she laughingly interposed:
"If it should be cloudy weather then?"
"But it won't be," answered the commissioner with decision. "However, now we have already come so far as to speak about weather, we can even think of what your mother will say about us."
"She won't trouble herself about it," answered the girl at once.
"It is astonishing that a mother does not pay any attention to what man her daughter is to bind herself in relationship, and whose name she is to carry! Can that be immaterial to her?"
"Good night, now!" interrupted Miss Mary and reached her mouth for a kiss. "To-morrow morning you will come and visit us! Is it not so?"