“Well, I know what I should write if I were you, George,” said Hero. “I should just write With my love.”
“ With my homage!” corrected George reverently.
“Yes, if you choose, but for my part, I think it would be more touching to put love.”
“How if I wrote, Carry these and you carry my heart?” said George, attacked by sudden inspiration.
Hero gave a gasp, and said in a shaken tone: “I don’t at all know why it should be so, dear George, but — but I think that would make me want to laugh, if I were Isabella.”
“It would?” he exclaimed, shocked.
She nodded.
“Well, I do not understand how it could possibly do so. However, I dare say you may be right. I should like to mention my heart, though. Would it make you laugh if I wrote, Hold these tonight, my heart is in them — or with them, or perhaps goes with them?”
“Yes, it would,” replied Hero frankly.
“I should not like to run such a risk,” he said, looking very much put out. “I think I will write Wear these for my sake, after all. Dash it, she will know what I mean!”