"Happy! you should have seen Jeanie's face, it was like—— Oh, I don't know what it was like! All the troubles fled away and just nothing but love in her eyes."
The path was narrow and Lewis fell back. He clenched his right hand. Why couldn't he just say, "Toney, let me see love in your eyes," but all the county would declare——
"You've done it all," was all he said.
"It's a great privilege—isn't it? but I was thinking of Maud and you too. The clo' is ordered. It was fun! But you will stay for it, won't you?"
"I don't know—I think I've taken my passage."
"Passage! where to?"
"To Somaliland."
"Maud said you wanted change."
"Did she? She is so taken up with her sister, she sees nothing else."
"I'm sure she does, but she is very noble-minded. But why not wait for a week—and here are my plans finished and you must look them over."