Alaric held out his hand frankly:
"Jolly decent of ye to offer to stay here—just to keep us goin'—awfully decent. You are certainly a little wonder. I'll miss you terribly—really I will."
Peg whispered:
"Did ye know about that five thousand pounds when I'm twenty-one?"
"'Course I did. That was why I proposed. To save the roof." Alaric was nothing if not honest.
"Ye'd have sacrificed yeself by marryin' ME?" quizzed Peg.
"Like a shot."
"There's somethin' of the hero about you, Alaric!"
"Oh, I mustn't boast," he replied modestly. "It's all in the family."
"Well, I'm glad ye didn't have to do it," Peg remarked positively.