"Why, had we but had snowdrifts and 'Thank-ee-moms,' I would have made you kiss me three weeks sooner than you did," said Grace.
"Did you want me to kiss you sooner than I did?" asked Sedgwick.
"O, you blind darling!" said Grace. "When I read of your exploit before the church in Devonshire, I told Jack and Rose that I would like to kiss that man. Then he told me who the man was, and after all I had to wait so long I began to fear he would never give me a chance to carry out my desire."
"Is that true, Gracie?" asked Sedgwick.
"Indeed it is," she replied, and then she quickly continued, "Does it drift badly along here?"
"Pretty badly," answered Sedgwick.
"Then, love," answered Grace, "buy the farm by all means and at all hazards."
"I believe I will," said Sedgwick. "I believe we need it in our business. If when we get back to England it shall be known that we have bought a home in America, and are having a house built, it will take all suspicions about a possible African enterprise away."
And that day he bought the farm, and the next one to it, and told his brother he would send from England plans for a house to be built in the spring.
Next day came the parting from the old home. Sedgwick promised to return before many months and stay longer, and he and his wife started for New York.