"Of course," he replied.
"Why, of course?" she asked, with slow utterance.
He looked down into her face a little quizzically. "Is it not of course?" he asked.
"I—don't—think so," she answered slowly.
"Paula!" He stood confronting her suddenly.
"Well, Mark?"
He laughed, yet looked at her rather seriously. "I thought you were going to be a nun?"
"I am; do you object?"
"I shall be sorry to see it. But——"
"But what?"