“Man proposes and woman disposes, to alter an old saying,” he smiled regretfully. “I’ve waited, and I can wait longer. It seems that I’ll have to.”
He kissed her as he spoke these words.
“You dear, good boy!”
“You’ll find me ready when you are, sweetheart,” he declared. “I shall not go to Mexico with Frank.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t prevent that for anything!” she cried. “If you have planned——”
“My plans must be altered, that is all. I’m going to be near you until you are yourself again, little girl.”
“And then——”
“And then I’ll positively decline to be put off any longer, Miss Perversity.”
“I hope you do not think I am perverse.”