"More joyous than this?" Peaches surveyed herself.
"Yes, Miss! The joyousest thing of all the world that could happen to you," he said.
"But Mickey-lovest!" she cried in protest. "You know—you know—what that would be!"
"Sure I know!" said Mickey.
"I don't believe it! It never could!" she cried.
"There you go!" said Mickey in exasperation. "You make me think of them Texas bronchos kicking at everything on earth, in the Wild West shows every spring. Honest you do!"
"Mickey, you forgot my po'try piece to-night!" she interposed hastily.
"What you want a poetry piece for with such a dress and ribbon as you got?" he demanded.
"I like the po'try piece better than the dress or the ribbon," she asserted positively.
"You'll be saying better than the baby, next!"