"'Are you afraid of me?' said he. 'Why should I be afraid?' said I. 'You know what it is I want of you,' said he, and sat down on the chest beside me."
"Beside you!"
"And then he put his arm round my waist."
"His arm round your waist? Are you wild?"
"I wanted to get away from him, but he would not let me go. 'Dear Eli,' said he,"—she laughed, and the other girl laughed too.
"Well? well?"
"'Will you be my wife?'"
"Ha, ha, ha!"
"Ha, ha, ha!"
And then both—"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!"