“Oh, I couldn’t, dear. Why, you may go any day, now.”
“Yes, but—can’t,—won’t you go, too?”
The wistfulness in the earnest face touched Patty’s heart, but she couldn’t quite say yes to this question.
“How long do you expect to be over there?”
“I’ve no idea. It may be for years and it may be forever——”
“What?”
“Oh, I don’t mean that literally——”
“You won’t be at the front?”
“Oh, no; unless some emergency calls for it.”
“Well,” and Patty sighed, “I see I’ll have to be sensible for us both. In the first place, dear, you’d be hampered with a bride——”