“Pray who asks you to tell a story?”

“You do, telling me to say I have a rich lover.”

“I do not. I am rich.”

“Not in money?”

“Yes, in money.”

“Why didn’t you tell me before?”

“I forgot. How could I think of riches with you filling up all the thinking-place!”

“But what am I to do to-night?”

“To-night?—oh!—I hadn’t thought of that!—We’ll ask Aggie.”

So Aggie was once more called, and consulted. She thought for a minute, then said,—