"Give the slipper to me."
"To keep?"
"Yes, to keep. Somehow, I rather fancy I should like to try it on,"—demurely.
So I gave her the slipper.
TWO CANDIDATES AN ADVENTURE IN LOVE AND POLITICS
I
To begin with, I am going to call things by their real name. At first glance this statement will give you a shiver of terror, that is, if you happen to be a maiden lady or a gentleman with reversible cuffs. But your shivers will be without reason. Prue may read, and modest Prue's mama; for it isn't going to be a naughty story; on the contrary, grandma's spring medicines are less harmless. Yet, there is a parable to expound and a moral to point out; but I shall leave these to your own discernment.