"Does it agree with yours?" he asked.
"Wonderfully," she replied. "I could not have imagined that Mrs. Petter and I were so much of a mind."
"Mrs. Cristie," said Lodloe, "I drop Lethbury, and here I stand with nothing but myself to offer you."
The moon had now set, the evening was growing dark, and the lady began to feel a little chilly about the shoulders.
"Mr. Lodloe," she asked, "what did you do with that bunch of sweet peas you picked this afternoon?"
"They are in my room," he said eagerly. "I have put them in water. They are as fresh as when I gathered them."
"Well," she said, speaking rather slowly, "if to-morrow, or next day, or any time when it may be convenient, you will bring them to me, I think I will take them."
THE BABY AND THE SWEET-PEA BLOSSOM.