"Yes, I'm so glad you did!"
She did not show that she noticed his merely having said the same thing over.
"Are you pretty well this spring?" she asked.
"Yes, I'm pretty well."
"Father was so much pleased about your patent. He's ever so proud of you."
After a pause, during which Henry looked nervously from point to point about the room, he said—
"Is he?"
"Yes, very, and so am I."
There was a long silence, and Laura took up her work-basket, and bent her face over it, and seemed to have a good deal of trouble in finding some article in it.
Suddenly he said, in a quick, spasmodic way—