"I can see that you will make a good politician."
He laughed happily.
"Evidently you like the name. You have applied it to me three times this morning."
"Like it? Why, I think it is the most charming name I ever heard. It smells of primroses, garden-walls, soldiers in ragged regimentals, of the time when they built houses with big-columned porches."
"My!"
"May I not call you Patty?"
"Oh, if you ask my permission, you may."
"I do."
"That is better."
"Patty?"