"Are you disappointed?" asked Lizzie archly. "If you are, I'll go back again."
In earnest of her sincerity, she took his arm, and clung to it. Alfred laughed.
"It looks as if you wanted to go back," he said, with admiring glances at her.
"O, Alfred, isn't this a delightful surprise?"
He nodded, and heedless of the people about them, took her hand in his. But she, more immediately conscious of the proprieties, gave his hand a little squeeze, and withdrew her own. She had on a new hat and a new dress, and she wanted him to admire them.
"Do you like my new hat, Alf?"
"Upon my word, I didn't notice it, Lizzie."
"O!" was her comment, in a tone of disappointment.
"I couldn't see anything but your face, Lizzie."
"Ah!" was her comment, in a tone of gratification, with love-sparkles in her eyes.