Her first proposal....
Only that afternoon she had been wondering if any one would propose to her, and already on her twentieth birthday she had received one.
Jemmie....
But she did not think of him as Jemmie. Were she to become his wife to-morrow, she should for a long time think of him as Mr. Alison.
Mary Alison....
That was rather attractive.
Mrs. Alison....
It was in his favor that he had neither father nor mother alive. If she did make up her mind to marry him, she should not want another grandmamma in her mother-in-law.
Mary Alison ... yours most truly, Mary Alison....