"Do you love me?"
"Oh, P'fessor, don't make me say it right out in plain English—not to-night. I'm pretty nearly going to cry now, and—" she twinkled a little then, like herself, "you know what crying does to my complexion."
But he did not smile. "Don't cry," he said. "We want to be happy to-night. You will tell me to-morrow. To-night—"
"To-night," she said sweetly, turning in his arms so that her face was toward him again, "to-night—" She lifted her arms, and put them softly about his neck, the laces falling back and showing her pink dimpled elbows. "To-night, my dearest,—" She lifted her lips to him, smiling.
THE END
Transcriber's Notes
Obvious punctuation errors corrected.
One instance each of "twinship" and "twin-ship" was retained.
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