“What would you tell me?” she asked.
“The young fellow who went to South America as a civil engineer took his wife with him.”
“Oh, Dave!” and for the moment Jessie turned her head away.
“If I went so far off, I’d want somebody with me, Jessie. A fellow would be awfully lonely otherwise.”
“I—I suppose that would be so.”
“If you thought enough of a fellow, would you go to South America, or Montana, or Africa with him?” And Dave looked Jessie full in the face.
“I’d go to the end of the world with him,” she answered, with sudden boldness.
Then Mr. Porter and Phil came back, and the conversation became general.